C: Further Readings

General Security Concepts

Saltzer and Schroeder, The Protection of Information in Computer Systems. A classic, seminal paper on the topic of computer systems security.
Lampson, Protection. Another seminal paper in systems security.
Thomas, Selected Systems Engineering Process Deficiencies and Their Consequences. Describes a few aeronautics and space systems engineering failures, including the case of Ariane 5.
Wilson and Jayawardena, Dirty Cow Demo. A visual explanation of Linux’s Dirty Cow vulnerability.
Lipp et al., Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space, and Kocher et al., Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution. Two papers describing the Meltdown and Spectre hardware CPU side channels.
Zanero, Coming of Age - Stressing the Importance of Threat Models. “The only way to reason sensibly about the security of a system, the closest thing we have to a method in the madness of this field, is to start from a realistic and complete model of the threats and the attack surface of the system.”

The lecture notes for my BSc. course unit on C. A much more detailed overview of the language.
cppreference.com, C. Good reference for the language.
learn-c.org. Exercises you can do in your browser.
Harvard’s CS50. The materials from week 1 to 4 cover C.