I have tried to pick out books that form part of a common pool of knowledge of the computer underground. Many people ask me what they should read to try to understand what it's about. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, just enough to raise your curiosity.
Computer Reference
The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities
Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh ISBN-13: 978-0321444424
Hacking Point of Sale: Payment Application Secrets, Threats, and Solutions
The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing, Second Edition: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy
Patrick Engebretson,
ISBN-13: 978-0124116443
Bulletproof SSL and TLS: Understanding and Deploying SSL/TLS and PKI to Secure Servers and Web Applications
Ivan Ristic, ISBN-13: 978-1907117046
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman ISBN-13: 978-0201100884
Computer Networks (5th Edition)
Andrew S. Tennebaum, ISBN-13: 978-0132126953
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, ISBN-13: 978-0984782802
The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing
Peter Kim, ASIN: B00N4FG6TW
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
Jon Erickson, ISBN-13: 978-1593271442 , available in paperback
Introduccion Teorico-Practica a la Programacion Web. Volumen I (Spanish Edition)
Juan Enrique Lombardi, ISBN-13: 978-1597546324
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!: A Beginner's Guide
Miran Lipovaca, ISBN-13: 978-1593272838
Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, ISBN-13: 978-1593272906
Python Essential Reference (4th Edition)
David M. Beazley, ISBN-13: 978-0672329784
Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual
Ben Clark, ISBN-13: 978-0321444424
Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success
James Marcus Bach, ISBN-13: 978-1439109090
Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, and DVD
Ryan Russel, Ido Dubrawsky, FX, Joe Grand, Tim Mullen, ASIN: B006NV2EGI
The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
Michael Zalewski, ISBN-13: 978-1593273880
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Kevin Fall and W. Richard Stevens, ISBN-13: 978-0321336316
Cyber Punk
William Gibson
The person who coined the term "Cyberspace" in the phenomenal book Neuromancer. We try and get him at DEF CON each year, if we could only get past his agent!
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Burning Chrome
The Difference Engine
Virtual Light
Idoru
Bruce Sterling
Islands in the Net
Heavy Weather
Schismatrix Plus (Complete Shapers-Mechanists Universe)
Phillip K. Dick
His story 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' inspired the majestic dystopia of Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'. That sinking feeling that the world you can see is not the true world? That's PKD country.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Scanner Darkly
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
The VALIS Trilogy
Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
Neal Stephenson
What can I say? All of these books are excellent all for different reasons.
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Interface
In the Beginning...was the Command Line
Cryptonomicon
Zodiac( The Eco-Thriller)
Vernor Vinge
You will notice similarities between the excellent True Names and Neuromancer
True Names...and Other Dangers
True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
D.F. Jones
Colossus
Colossus And Crab
The Fall of Colossus
Colossus the Forbin Project
Colossus Triology: Colossus, The Fall of Colossus and Colossus and the Crab
Mel Odom
Lethal Interface
George Orwell
1984 (Signet Classics)
William C. Dietz
Legion of the Damned
Bodyguard
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Frederick Pohl
Man Plus
Mars Plus
A peek behind the curtains...
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Corporate Espionage: What It Is, Why It's Happening in Your Company, What You Must Do About It
Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway
Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
The spy catcher trial: The scandal behind the #1 best seller
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency
The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
The Mossad: Israel's Secret Intelligence Service: Inside Stories
A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War
Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency`s Internal Journal, 1955-1992
A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
Che Guevara and the FBI: U.S. Political Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary
Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Friendly Spies: How America's Allies Are Using Economic Espionage to Steal Our Secrets
War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America
Competitive Intelligence : How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top
Unconventional Information
RFID: MIFARE and Contactless Cards in Application
Credit Power!: Rebuild Your Credit in 90 Days or Less
How to Investigate Your Friends, Enemies, and Lovers
Privacy Power: Protecting Your Personal Privacy in the Digital Age
The Underground Database (The Electronic Underground, Vol 1)
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
Smart Casino Gambling: How to Win More and Lose Less
Cheating at Blackjack Squared: The Dark Side of Gambling
The Ultimate Scanner: Cheek 3
Radio Monitoring: The How-To Guide
Scanner Modifications And Antennas
Scanners And Secret Frequencies (Electronic Underground S)
Smart Drugs II (Smart Drug Series, V. 2)
Smart Card Developer's Kit
Underground Culture
Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals
At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
The Cyberthief and the Samurai
The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick
The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace
Out of the Inner Circle: The True Story of a Computer Intruder Capable of Cracking the Nation's Most Secure Computer Systems (Tempus)
Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By the Man Who Did It
The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet