Countdown to Zero Day

Kim Zetter is an award-winning writer who writes for Wired about cybercrime, civil liberties, privacy, and security. She was one of the first journalists to cover Stuxnet following its discovery, and she has written several of the most in-depth stories about it. She has also broken countless stories on Wikileaks and Bradley Manning, NSA surveillance, and the hacker underground throughout the years.

The book is about a top cybersecurity journalist who relates the story of the virus that wrecked Iran's nuclear efforts and demonstrates how its existence has ushered in a new era of warfare in which a digital attack may be as damaging as a megaton bomb.

Stuxnet, as it is now called, was unlike any previous piece of malware ever created: Rather than simply hijacking or stealing information from targeted systems, it demonstrated that a piece of code might escape the digital realm and cause genuine, physical destruction—in this case, on an Iranian nuclear site.

In these pages, journalist Kim Zetter tells the entire story of the world's first cyberweapon, from its conception in the corridors of the White House to its effects in Iran—as well as the spectacular, unlikely story of the security geeks who uncovered a top-secret sabotage campaign that had been years in the making.

But Countdown to Zero Day goes beyond Stuxnet, analyzing the past and future of cyberwarfare, demonstrating what can happen if our infrastructure is targeted by a Stuxnet-style attack, and finally offering a depiction of a society on the verge of a new sort of war. It is among the best books on cyber security.

Author: Kim Zetter

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