15 best Penetration testing books

Fadi Al-Aswadi
4 min readNov 26, 2020

Personally, I consider these books to be a great resource to start in penetration testing, but that’s right there are actually a lot of books out there but I found those will kick you start in this field.
so in this post, I'll refer to 15 penetration testing books and what benefits they will provide you to start your journey as a penetration tester.

1- the first book on the list is “Penetration Testing”, and this is one of the greatest books ever and it's a general book and it contains a lot of information about penetration testing, and the book starts from the beginning with Linux commands, and how to use Linux in general, and then you will learn about the types of attacks and how to crack passwords and what methodologies are used to do that, as well as developing exploits and how to start hacking phones, this book should be in anyone wants to enter the world of penetration testing.

2- The second book is the Linux Basics for Hackers, and this book is one of the best books for learning Kali Linux operating system and Linux in general.
just as we all know that the Linux operating system is the most popular operating system among hackers and in this book, you will explore how to download this OS to your computer and terminal interface and also how Download and install software, and much more about Linux

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