Reference Materials

Information security

Charles R. Pleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger: Security in Computing, Third or Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall.

Cryptography

Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup: A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography.

Malware and vulnerabilities

Ed Skoudis with Tom Liston: Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses, Prentice Hall.

Linux and Git commands

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education, MIT.

C programming

Sridhar Alagar: CS/SE 3377: C Review, UT Dallas.

x86 assembly language

Anton Burtsev: x86 Instruction Set, UC Irvine.

GDB

Hoa Nguyen: GDB Tutorial.
DarkDust: GDB Cheatsheet.