Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0770436196 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Immensely enjoyableZetter turns a complicated and technical cyber- story into an engrossing whodunitThe age of digital warfare may well have begun."--Washington Post"An authoritative account of Stuxnet’s spread and discoverydelivers a sobering message about the vulnerability of the systems—train lines, water-treatment plants, electricity grids—that make modern life possible."--Economist"Exhaustively researchedZetter gives a full account of this “hack of the century,” as the operation has been called, but the book goes well beyond its ostensible subject to offer a hair-raising introduction to the age of cyber warfare."--Wall Street Journal“Part detective story, part scary-brilliant treatise on the future of warfare…an ambitious, comprehensive, and engrossing book that sho
Excellent, Fascinating Read Being in the IT field (in particular working with OS design and administration) I took an interest when Stuxnet came to light a few years back. The last time I remembered such a stir created in the media about propagating malware was when the Morris worm surfaced in the late 1980’s. I did not know too much about Stuxnet other than what was shared in news reports so I was eager to learn more. This book definitely delivers the goods.Instead of a dry, factual presentation that just leaves the reader bored, this book reads more like a novel – except. Pierre Jean Lavelle said Best computer book in years ! Hope it will motivate a new generation of computer programmers.. I remembered my days in the late 80's when on my free time I deciphered the first viruses, built disassemblers and my own anti-virus, and shared it freely with the local community. Then, with polymorphics, the problem became too complex and time-intensive, I had to let it down just when the first commercial solutions became available. Kim Zetter wrote a beautiful book accompanying step by step the discovery and analysis of the largest (up today) computer virus. I understood that a large part was built with compilers and not handcrafted by vicious assembly l. Fascinating but tends to drag At its core, Countdown to Zero Day tells the story of Stuxnet, the computer virus developed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program that has received significant media attention over the past few years. But the book is much more than that: it describes how governmental cyberwarfare has evolved over the past two decades, including many details of various operations undertaken by the United States and others. It also tells the story of the researchers who discovered Stuxnet and slowly deciphered the code, peeling back the layers of the virus one by one. Final
. She has also broken numerous stories over the years about WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, NSA surveillance, and the hacker underground. KIM ZETTER is an award-winning journalist who covers cybercrime, civil liberties, privacy, and security for Wired. She was among the first journalists to cov
Propelled by Zetter’s unique knowledge and access, and filled with eye-opening explanations of the technologies involved, Countdown to Zero Day is a comprehensive and prescient portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war.. She takes us inside today’s flourishing zero-day “grey markets,” in which intelligence agencies and militaries pay huge sums for the malicious code they need to carry out infiltrations and attacks. The cause was a complete mystery—apparently as much to the technicians replacing the centrifuges as to the inspectors observing them. At first, the firm’s programmers believed the malicious code on the machines was a simple, routine piece of malware. Then, five months later, a seemingly unrelated event occurred: A comput