Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Sixth Edition

This book serves as a great reference book to anyone in the field. Experienced or not, this should probably be on your shelf. It is also a great introduction to Security Research. Wish it were around when I was a teen trying to learn this type of stuff (35 now). Back then you had “Shellcoders Handbook” and that was about it. For years I would tell those I mentor to give that book a read. Now I steer them towards Gray Hat Hacking.

10/10

This book provides an excellent reference to a variety of offensive security topics. I haven't read it from front to back, but rather jumped to sections based on need or interest at the time. Each section provides important foundational knowledge as well as concrete examples or hands-on experiments the reader can use to gain more familiarity. The content is very recent and relevant and you can tell that the authors have a tremendous amount of expertise and perspective to offer. Would recommend.

I like this book more than my other hacking books. I haven’t done all the tasks, but so far it was a better buy. Seems to have a wealth of info.

The only complaints I would have are twofold. One, it's some pretty stiff reading, best taken in small sections. Secondly, the print and graphics are very small, so you better have good vision to read it without undue fatigue.