
Countdown to Zero Day
Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
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Narrated by:
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Joe Ochman
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Kim Zetter
A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.
“Immensely enjoyable . . . Zetter turns a complicated and technical cyber story into an engrossing whodunit.”—The Washington Post
The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction—in this case, on an Iranian nuclear facility.
In these chapters, journalist Kim Zetter tells the whole story behind the world’s first cyberweapon, covering its genesis in the corridors of the White House and its effects in Iran—and telling the spectacular, unlikely tale of the security geeks who managed to unravel a top secret sabotage campaign years in the making.
But Countdown to Zero Day also ranges beyond Stuxnet itself, exploring the history of cyberwarfare and its future, showing us what might happen should our infrastructure be targeted by a Stuxnet-style attack, and ultimately, providing a portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war.
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Critic reviews
“An authoritative account of Stuxnet’s spread and discovery . . . [delivers] a sobering message about the vulnerability of the systems—train lines, water-treatment plants, electricity grids—that make modern life possible.”—Economist
“Exhaustively researched . . . Zetter 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.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Part detective story, part scary-brilliant treatise on the future of warfare . . . an ambitious, comprehensive, and engrossing book that should be required reading for anyone who cares about the threats that America—and the world—are sure to be facing over the coming years.”—Kevin Mitnick, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost in the Wires and The Art of Intrusion
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The amount of detail ensures that each read will uncover something that you will have missed previously, but one pass is enough to give you the sense of the danger to online systems.What did you like best about this story?
The technical details were great, but did not sound like reading of a Comp Sci text book.Cyber Scarry!!! You will want to unplug after....
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Eye Opening
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An essential for anyone in the cybersecurity field.
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well written and performed
malwary!
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I'm from a technical background, and I'm surprised that it contained such thorough coverage of how a virus and digital vulnerabilities work.
But I also think that the research and presentation of the political and military facets were equally impressive. This makes the book an exciting read for most people, technically inclined or not.
Well researched, well told
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Fascinating
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Interesting listening.
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