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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 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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Reviews
This book is partly a great insight into how cybersecurity experts worked, or used to work in the early 2000s and the book itself is a great memory lane into that time. Another part is a great thriller with deeply developed characters, everyone gets their own backstory and you learn why they do what they do. The scenarios are probable and likely happened or will happen somewhere in the world. Recommended read!
By The-trance-machine
I found this book extremely interesting. We rely on computers and the internet for the most minute of things .. but just what if it goes askew ..??!!!
By Dani yellow
I'm a computer geek as well as action/espionage fan and this book was the perfect blend.
By ad4mb3nge
I want to like this book, but the moment I start to get into it I come across another example of horribly written it is. It's like slowly sinking into a warm bath and the suddenly someone dumps a glass of ice water over your head. Its jarring and it makes you completely stop enjoying yourself. The author(s) are trying to write a slick techno thriller, but can't seem to make up their minds on how dumbs their audience is. Some moments it is pretty slick, but just as often anyone with a shred of computer of online gaming experience will be rolling their eyes. In addition, all of the women characters are atrocious. I am a red blooded male, but I can see through these characters as if they were made of gossamer. The women all have those telltales signs that they were CLEARLY written by a man. It is unsettling.Remember, I am telling you this as a man myself. I AM NOT GOOD AT NOTICING THINGS LIKE THIS! It's all the more disappointing that this is the case. I feel bad for the ladies reading this.
By Brandon Boyd
Only 4 stars because I think some of the technical jargon and details limit the audience. I would like to share this book with my Mom but she would be lost. The characters, vivid and believable. The plot tight, fast, relevant. Frightening and eye opening page turner. Couldn't put the book down.
By buffylouz