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Indlæser... Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon (original 2014; udgave 2015)af Kim Zetter (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I would actually give this 4.5 stars if I could. It is a thorough and complex look at Stuxnet and the issues surrounding cyber warfare that reads almost like a thriller. It goes into technical detail without getting too bogged down. It can be occasionally difficult to follow but that may be unavoidable given the subject. I think the author does a good job of considering the consequences of opening up this Pandora's Box. An excellent account of Stuxnet. As a subject matter expert employed in the field, I watched this intently as it unfolded, and was familiar with much of the material in the book, but still found it enjoyable and informative. For anyone who hasn't been following Stuxnet and related issues closely, this book would be an excellent introduction. Even without a technical background, it would be easy to follow the human and political implications. (Second book I've read this year (audible audiobook, in this case, unabridged)) Nerd level 10! Great story. Some really good, deep investigative journalism. Quoted a lot froM Sanger book, so read that one as well. Very enjoyable. Described the hack with a level of detail that didnt overwhelm the non-computer science nerd. And a very impressive piece of malwaare that was built. Also liked that she talked a bit about the ethical implications of a virus like stuxnet. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter 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. In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause was a complete mystery??apparently as much to the technicians replacing the centrifuges as to the inspectors observing them. Then, five months later, a seemingly unrelated event occurred: A computer security firm in Belarus was called in to troubleshoot some computers in Iran that were crashing and rebooting repeatedly. At first, the firm??s programmers believed the malicious code on the machines was a simple, routine piece of malware. But as they and other experts around the world investigated, they discovered a mysterious virus of unparalleled complexity. They had, they soon learned, stumbled upon the world??s first digital weapon. For Stuxnet, as it came to be known, was unlike any other virus or worm built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it escaped the digital realm to wreak actual, physical destruction on a nuclear facility. In these pages, Wired journalist Kim Zetter draws on her extensive sources and expertise to tell the story behind Stuxnet??s planning, execution, and discovery, covering its genesis in the corridors of Bush??s White House and its unleashing on systems in Iran??and telling the spectacular, unlikely tale of the security geeks who managed to unravel a sabotage campaign years in the making. But Countdown to Zero Day ranges far beyond Stuxnet itself. Here, Zetter shows us how digital warfare developed in the US. 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. She reveals just how vulnerable many of our own critical systems are to Stuxnet-like strikes, from nation-state adversaries and anonymous hackers alike??and shows us just what might happen should our infrastructure be targeted by such an attack. 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 No library descriptions found. |
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A dense (but engrossing) read, this is about Stuxnet, the game-changing virus/worm that signalled the age of cyberwarfare.
Since this is a true story (and not based on one), it becomes a drudgery to wade through the 'boring' parts, but it is all made up for in the last third of the work, which details how the world landscape was changed irrevocably (for the worse) through trying to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.
TL;DR - reads like an expanded magazine article series, read if you can withstand factual writing which looks to be techno-babble, but don't read it if you want some sort of 'excitement' in your 'plot'. ( )