More and more critical applications have been migrated to websites now. Meanwhile, the security of these apps have become a major challenge to all kinds of institutions. Know yourself as well as the enemy, so that you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat. Similarly, only by understanding the exploitable vulnerabilities exist in web applications and the attack methods adopted by web attackers, we can more effectively ensure the safety of our web apps.

In the development history of computer, no programming language is so widely used like C. The C Programming Language was co-written by the famous computer scientist Brian Kernighan and the father of C language Dennis Ritchie. As an authoritative classic writing introducing the standard C language and its programming methods, it is regarded as the must-read bible for C language programming (or we can see it as the industry standards of C language which is widely used anywhere all the time).

This computer security book on cryptography was published in 1995, but never hence miss such a classic work - because even in today 2015, it is still working. If you want to study cryptography, then do read Applied Cryptography written by Bruce Schneier.

Well, this has been the ninth edition of the Linux Bible series of books published by Wiley Publishing. Naturally, Linux Bible, 9th Edition already has a very good reputation and accumulates a wide range of readers -including Linux professionals and amateurs.

In fact, at first glance, PHP5 and MySQL Bible is really some "old" (released in 2004, and the involved subjects are PHP5 and MySQL4 which seem outdated. But as one of the classic works of Wiley Publishing's Bible series, its 1080 pages' content is absolutely worth to drill down and study.