Zero Day
An airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In...
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An airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction.
At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who quit in disgust after witnessing the gross errors that led up to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious attack targeting the United States computer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctions pop up around the world, some with deadly results, he realizes that there isn’t much time if he hopes to prevent an international catastrophe.
Written by a global authority on cyber security, Zero Day presents a chilling “what if” scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today—it’s a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780312612467 (031261246X)
Publish date: March 15th 2011
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Science Fiction,
Computer Science,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Action,
Suspense,
Fiction
I mostly enjoyed reading this book. The L33T speak was really annoying though. I'm sure hackers would use it. Since the author was in the tech industry he's probably right that the security professionals would use it, too. I feel like if the author wanted to show how devastating such an attack c...
Zero Day explores what could happen if some hackers are turned to true evil by terrorists. It examines what could happen if a doomsday virus is sent to almost every computer in the western world and wonders if we are truly too dependent on them. Jeff, a computer analyst, leaves his government job ...