Countdown to Zero Day

<b>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. <br></b><br><b>Immensely enjoyable . . . Zetter turns a complicated and technical cyber story into an engrossing whodunit.--<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><b> </b><br>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 <i>physical</i> destruction--in this case on an Iranian nuclear facility. <p/>In these pages journalist Kim Zetter tells the whole story behind the 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. <p/>But <i>Countdown to Zero Day </i>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.