[TUHS] Off topic: Books on Unix security?

[Rik Farrow via TUHS]

I don't know of any recent, good books on Unix security. I wrote one, but
that was in 1990. Simpson and Spafford's book was last updated in 2003, and
had become somewhat of a monster by then at 986 pages:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-unix-and/0596003234/

Paul Von Oorschot's security book second edition came out in 2021, and
while not focused on Unix, is more of a college textbook, but also provides
in-depth coverage. Here's a book review I wrote about it:

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/computer-security-and-internet

Rik


On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM steffen via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

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