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The Resource Countdown to Zero Day : Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon, Kim Zetter

Countdown to Zero Day : Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon, Kim Zetter

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  • "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 world at the edge of a new kind of war."--
  • "This story of the virus that destroyed Iran's nuclear centrifuges, by top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter, shows that the door has been opened on a new age of warfare--one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb dropped from an airplane"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
433 pages
Contents
  • Prologue : The case of the centrifuges
  • Early warning
  • 500 kilobytes of mystery
  • Natanz
  • Stuxnet deconstructed
  • Springtime for Ahmadinejad
  • Digging for zero days
  • Zero-day paydays
  • The payload
  • Industrial controls out of control
  • Precision weapon
  • A digital plot is hatched
  • A new fighting domain
  • Digital warheads
  • Son of Stuxnet
  • Flame
  • Olympic Games
  • The mystery of the centrifuges
  • Qualified success
  • Digital Pandora
Isbn
9780770436193
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Countdown to Zero Day : Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon
Title
Countdown to Zero Day
Title remainder
Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon
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Kim Zetter
Creator
Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "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 world at the edge of a new kind of war."--
  • "This story of the virus that destroyed Iran's nuclear centrifuges, by top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter, shows that the door has been opened on a new age of warfare--one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb dropped from an airplane"--
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Zetter, Kim
Dewey number
355.4
Index
index present
LC call number
UG593
LC item number
.Z48 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • United States.
  • Cyberspace operations (Military science)
  • Network-centric operations (Military science)
  • Network-centric operations (Military science)
  • Computer crimes
  • Rootkits (Computer software)
  • Uranium enrichment
  • Sabotage
  • Nuclear arms control
  • Nuclear nonproliferation
  • United States
  • Iran
  • Förenta staterna
  • Israel
  • Iran
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • COMPUTERS
  • COMPUTERS
  • IT-forensisk verksamhet
  • Sabotage
  • Diplomatiska förbindelser
  • Väpnade styrkor
  • Militärtechnik
  • Information warfare
  • Internationale Politik
Label
Countdown to Zero Day : Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon, Kim Zetter
Link
9780770436179.jpg
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue : The case of the centrifuges -- Early warning -- 500 kilobytes of mystery -- Natanz -- Stuxnet deconstructed -- Springtime for Ahmadinejad -- Digging for zero days -- Zero-day paydays -- The payload -- Industrial controls out of control -- Precision weapon -- A digital plot is hatched -- A new fighting domain -- Digital warheads -- Son of Stuxnet -- Flame -- Olympic Games -- The mystery of the centrifuges -- Qualified success -- Digital Pandora
Control code
ocn858126251
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
433 pages
Isbn
9780770436193
Lccn
2014016640
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780770436179
  • (OCoLC)858126251
Label
Countdown to Zero Day : Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon, Kim Zetter
Link
9780770436179.jpg
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue : The case of the centrifuges -- Early warning -- 500 kilobytes of mystery -- Natanz -- Stuxnet deconstructed -- Springtime for Ahmadinejad -- Digging for zero days -- Zero-day paydays -- The payload -- Industrial controls out of control -- Precision weapon -- A digital plot is hatched -- A new fighting domain -- Digital warheads -- Son of Stuxnet -- Flame -- Olympic Games -- The mystery of the centrifuges -- Qualified success -- Digital Pandora
Control code
ocn858126251
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
433 pages
Isbn
9780770436193
Lccn
2014016640
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780770436179
  • (OCoLC)858126251

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