<tr class="category"><td colspan="5">🔍 OSINT & Social Engineering</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td><a href="#">Open Source Intelligence Techniques</a></td><td>Michael Bazzell</td><td>OSINT</td><td>Beginner/Inter</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td><a href="#">Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking</a></td><td>Chris Hadnagy</td><td>Human vectors</td><td>All levels</td></tr>
The 1970s and 1980s marked the beginning of hacking as we know it today. One of the earliest influential books, "The Hacker's Handbook" (1985) by Hugo Cornwall, provided an insider's perspective on the hacking scene. This book was followed by "The Art of Electronics" (1980) by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, which laid the foundation for electronics and circuit design. index of hacking books better