22 Dec 50 Cybersecurity Books For High Schoolers And Newbies
Who wants to become a cybercrime fighter?
– Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief
Northport, N.Y. – Dec. 22, 2021
If a high school student or newbie is interested in cybersecurity, then what are the best books for them to read?
We assigned Connor Morgan, a researcher at Cybercrime Magazine, to produce a list that whets the appetite of young and old minds alike.
Some of the books on our list provide educational material and tutorials on various cyber topics. Others are history lessons in cybercrime and cybersecurity. And then there are entertaining stories for anyone with a knack for cat and mouse play.
50 CYBERSECURITY BOOKS
There’s something for everyone who’s interested in cybersecurity on this list.
- Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone
- Big Tech Tyrants: How Silicon Valley’s Stealth Practices Addict Teens, Silence Speech, and Steal Your Privacy
- Click Here to Kill Everybody
- Countdown to Zero Days: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
- Cryptography: The Key to Digital Security, How it Works, and Why it Matters
- Cybersecurity: An Essential Guide to Computer and Cyber Security for Beginners Including Ethical Hacking, Risk Assessment, Social Engineering, Attack and Defense Strategies, and Cyberwarfare
- Cyber Minds: Insights on cybersecurity across the cloud,data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT to keep you cyber safe
- Engineering, Attack and Defense Strategies, and Cyberwarfare
- Cybersecurity:The Beginners Guide to Learning The Basics of Information Security and Modern Cyber Threats
- Cybersecurity Basics: Cyber Attacks, Network Security, And Threat Protection
- Cybersecurity, Cyberwar and Cyberweapon: A Beginner’s guide to understanding cyber security and how it affects you
- Cyber Security: Understand Hacking and Protect Yourself and Your Organization From Ever Getting Hacked
- Cyber Crisis: Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World
- Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner’s Guide to Cybersecurity – How to Protect Yourself in the Modern World
- Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Cybersecurity for Beginners
- Cybersecurity for Dummies
- Cybersecurity for Teens
- Cybersecurity: The Beginners Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Started in Cybersecurity
- Cyber Security: Ultimate Beginners Guide to Learn the Basics and Effective Methods of Cyber Security
- Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
- Engineering for Teens: A Beginner’s Book for Aspiring Engineers
- Ethical Hacking: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to Learn About the Effective Strategies of Ethical Hacking
- Exploding the Phones: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
- Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy
- Hackable: How to Do Application Security Right
- Hacking: A Quick and Simple Introduction to the Basics of Hacking, Scripting, Cybersecurity, Networking, and System Penetration
- Hack-Proof Your Life Now!: The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft
- How Cybersecurity Really Works: A Hands-on Guide for Total Beginners
- How to Hack a Human: Cybersecurity for the Mind
- How to Keep Your Stuff Safe Online
- Inside Jobs: Why Insider Risks is the Biggest Cyber Threat You Can’t Ignore
- Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- Introduction to Cyber Politics and Policy
- Little Brother
- Online Danger: How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones From the Evil Side of the Internet
- Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking
- Tips for Your Personal Cybersecurity
- The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
- The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
- The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- The Coming Cyber War: What Executives, the Board, and You Should Know
- The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values—and What We Can Do About It
- The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Carrer as an Ethical Hacker
- The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity
- This is How They Telll Me The World Ends: The Cyber Weapon Arms Race
- Trust No One: Cybersecurity Basics for Home and Business
- White Hat Black Heart
- Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime
Knowledge is power in the war against cybercrime. If you read one or some of these books and decide cybersecurity isn’t the right field for you, then at least you’ll be able to protect yourself against the rising tide of digital criminals.
– Steve Morgan is founder and Editor-in-Chief at Cybersecurity Ventures.
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