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During this long time without posting anything in this blog, at night I have been (re)reading some interesting books that I'd like to recommend to you.

This books are of the cyberpunk genre and although it's fiction the stories and what happen to the characters or what they do is based completely in real techniques and risks in the computer security area, which is one of the areas I'm really interested in and is part of my day job even when nobody in the office has any idea of what is possible and the implications if we where attacked by some. And I won't even mention the procedures that are recommended to be followed in such a case.

If you are interested in this area I'm sure that you will like this books, even if you don't and just want to read a novel, after reading this series you may began to think different about computer security and your habits in your work or personal life and that will be good enough.

While the first books of this series are somewhat old, the latest is from this year.

Stealing the Network:How to own the box

This is the book that spawned the series, This one is about short stories of hackers and crackers and the techniques or tools used to gain unauthorized access to computers and information.

Stealing the Network: How to own a continent

While the first book focused on individual stories, in this book is a single story and some of the characters introduced in the first book return to form part of a group but most of them doesn't know that they are part of it and the main objective.

Stealing the network: How to own and identity

Third book of the series, is focused in identity theft and continues the story from the previous book with the same characters.

Stealing the Network: How to own a continent

This book continues the story from the previous 2 books and the chase of the master-mind shadowy figure from previous books, who is tracked across the world and the Web by adversaries with skill to match his own

All of the authors/contributors of this series are computer security experts and in each book there is some sort of behind the scenes of how this series began and the work involved in the creation of the books.

This is just part of the books I read in the last 3 months, later I'll post some more books that I think are good enough to recommend. Not all are fiction, some are technical and some are about business.