The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2) cover
The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2)
by Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh
ISBN: 0321444426
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agnokapathetic · 2013-09-30 · Original thread
In my opinion, the most helpful text for transitioning from development to security would be:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Software-Security-Assessment-Vulne...

Beyond that add in a bit of system administration knowledge e.g. in-depth knowledge of operating systems and networking, and you have everything you need to break many many systems!