Security practitioners are under the constant need to keep up to date and continue their learning, just to keep up with the ever changing tactics of cyber criminals. It's one of the reasons, to keep an eye out for useful books to enhance and broaden our knowledge base. A recent article covered useful application security books available on Amazon. The article covers 4 useful books for application security, and the books cover a wide range of topics from traditional application security to penetration testing and DevOps. The first recommended book is a true classic, "Web Application Security" published by O'Reilly.

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We are in the post-signature era of antimalware software. Attackers are driven by the profit motive, and are also driven by a lust for power. About a decade ago, malware researchers determined that the amount of malicious files in the computing collective doubled every two years. Now, in a manner similar to Moore's Law, the rate of malware growth is probably exponentially greater. Malware deployers aren't only script kiddies who buy executables and crypters in the Dark Web.