Re:Ask HN: Where did you learn about security/attacks?
by mbrubeck on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @05:33PM
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Ross Anderson's Security Engineering is an excellent introductory book. Highly readable, and broad but not very deep. The first edition is free online (and is still a perfectly resource; the second edition has a few added chapters):
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html