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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Door Kim Zetter

Categorie
Recht & Criminologie
Boeknummer
#421261-YF1
Titel
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Auteur
Zetter, Kim
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York : Crown
Jaar van uitgave
2014
ISBN10
0770436196
ISBN13
9780770436193
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 pages, journalist Kim Zetter tells the whole story behind the ... (Lees verder)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.
Pagina's
433
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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