Books – links

Hands of the Craftsman is a song, an album and a book. This page includes links to all three.

The Vanes of Shrewsbury features the drawings of my uncle, Eddie Parker, with some photographs and historical background. Links on this page.

The Vanes of Shrewsbury

Suite in Four Flats (and a Maisonette) is the 2nd edition of a small collection of verse from the 1980s. Links to the eBook and paperback here.

Suite in Four Flats

Introduction to Nashville Tuning for Guitar is a short textbook. Links to the paperback and eBook versions here. 

So Sound You Sleep: My Shropshire Songs and their Stories is based on the album Tears of Morning but spawned the much bulkier album So Sound You Sleep. Links are here.

So Sound You Sleep: My Shropshire Songs and Their Stories (David Harley: Words and Music Book 1) by [David Harley]

More info from the Geek Peninsula blog:

The Vanes Of Shrewsbury – A collection of drawings by Eddie Parker with David Harley’s additional artwork, and extensive historical and personal notes, Available for Kindle and as paperbacks in colour and in black & white).)

Suite In Four Flats (and a Maisonette) 2nd Edition (verse – first edition no longer available, but it was fairly scruffy.)

So Sound You Sleep  (my Shropshire songs and their stories)

Introduction to Nashville Tuning for Guitar

Hands of the Craftsman Based on songs and other writing for the 80s revue Nice, if you can get it  – a revue about work.

See my Amazon author’s page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001HPS1NK

Verse anthologies to which I was just one contributor:

  • Book of Lived Volume 8 (Penny Authors, 2022)
  • Under The Asylum Tree (Survivors’ Press – no longer available)
  • From Dark To Light (Survivors’ Press – no longer available)

There were lots of others (including Chaff, First Time, and Vertical Images) but you’re unlikely to find any of them anywhere at this point. Most of my own contributions will probably appear in a self-published book at some point, if I’m spared. If I’m not, then I guess you’ll be spared…

Postcards from Canada –Judith and D avid Harley (travel – no longer available)

Antique Security Books

Botnets: The Killer Web Applications or from here.

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OS X Exploits and Defense or from here.

OS X Exploits and Defense: Own it...Just Like Windows or Linux! by [Chris Hurley, Johnny Long, David Harley, Paul Baccas, Kevin Finisterre, Larry H., Gary Porteus]

AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise or else here.

AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise by [David Harley, Ken Bechtel, Michael Blanchard, Henk K. Diemer, Andrew Lee, Igor Muttik, Bojan Zdrnja, Robert S. Vibert]

Viruses Revealed or from here.

Viruses Revealed by [David Harley, Robert Slade, Urs Gattiker, Eugene H. Spafford]

More info from my Geek Peninsula blog:

This is a not-quite-complete list of security books I’ve co-authored. There wasn’t going to be another one, as I’m now retired from the security industry apart from some occasional writing/editing/translation/consultancy, but there is a book on Facebook in process, so you never know. 🙂

  • In 2018-19 I contributed some content, editing and translation to tbe book Cyberdanger by Eddy Willems.  The book has now been published by Springer.
  • In 2015 I was approached by Mighty Guides about contributing a short article to the eBook Securing Your Network and Application Infrastructure. I haven’t actually read it yet, but it’s apparently now available on the Fortinet page here and on the Mighty Guides site here. It’s split into several sections, and mine is a very short article. 🙂 Addendum: various parts of the publication are now available on Slideshare. The section to which I contributed is here or here, but I expect you’ll want to read the whole thing. 😉
  • Bidgoli, Hossein, et al (2008). The Handbook of Computer Networks. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-78460-9.  Volume 3, “E-Mail Threats and Vulnerabilities.” Basically an update to the chapter in the Handbook of Information Security (details below). These are not books for the fainthearted and empty-pocketed.
  • Baccas, Paul, et al (2008). OS X Exploits and Defense. Syngress. ISBN 978-1-59749-254-6.  Chapter 3: “Malicious Macs: Malware and the Mac.” Chapter 4: “Malware Detection and the Mac.” Unfortunately (content-wise) there wasn’t much OS X malware to write about at the time. And the security product scene has changed drastically. Oh well. I won’t be getting royalties from that one anyway. Commiserations to Paul, who took over the editing from me. Which probably worked well for Syngress since I don’t think they paid anybody for the editing…
  • Harley, David, et al (2007). AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise. Syngress. ISBN 978-1-59749-164-8.  (Editor, technical editor, several chapters.) Another contributor was Andrew Lee, now CEO of ESET N. America (who also relieved me of a lot of editing/proofing work).
  • Schiller, Craig A.,, Binkley, Jim et al (2007). Botnets: the Killer Web App. Syngress. ISBN 1-59749-135-7.  Co-wrote Chapter 5, “Botnet Detection: Tools and Techniques” with Jim Binkley.
  • Bidgoli, Hossein, et al (2006). Handbook of Information Security. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-64833-7.  Volume 3, “E-Mail Threats and Vulnerabilities.”
  • Paulus, S., Pohlmann N., Reimer, H. et al (2004). ISSE 2004: Securing Electronic Business Processes. Vieweg. ISBN 978-3-528-05910-1.  Massmailers: New Threats Need Novel Anti-Virus Measures. Actually a conference paper that I was unable to get to the conference so it wasn’t actually presented, but they included it in the conference proceedings anyway. The chapter is very much of its time, but I recently noticed that it’s available to buy for an eyewatering $29.95 (for a mere ten pages), while the book is available a slightly less alarming $69.99. I had no idea my deathless prose was so valuable.
  • Bosworth, Seymour, Kabay M.E. et al (2002). 4th Edition of Computer Security Handbook. John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-41258-9.  Co-wrote Chapter 49, “Medical Records Security” with Paul Brusil, though I’m not credited on the web site. Gee, thanks, guys. I’m credited in the print edition, though, so I didn’t imagine it. When I checked, I noticed that Stephen Cobb, my colleague at ESET North America, was also a contributor. It’s a small world…
  • Anonymous, et al (2002). Maximum Security Fourth Edition. SAMS. ISBN 0-672-32459-8.  Revised Chapter 17 “Viruses and Worms”, Chapter 18 “Trojans.” Please note that a great many people who weren’t anonymous hackers contributed chapters to this and the previous edition. 🙂
  • Anonymous, et al (2001). Maximum Security Third Edition. SAMS. ISBN 0-672-31871-7.  Chapter 17 “Viruses and Worms”, Chapter 18 “Trojans.”
  • Harley, David, Robert Slade and Urs E. Gattiker (2001). Viruses Revealed. McGraw-Hill Companies. ISBN 0-07-213090-3.  Co-Author. Despite some of the reviews of and links to this book that I’ve seen, C. David Harley is a completely different person and did not contribute to this book…
  • SANS Institute, 1998. Windows NT Security Step by Step. I contributed a very short section on implementing anti-virus software, as far as I remember. Included purely for completeness.
  • I also found an eBook Living With Viruses: An article from: Security Management which is actually an article I wrote for ASIS recycled as an eBook. Very, very outdated. I can no longer find it on the web, but if you do come across it, I wouldn’t recommend that you buy it.