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Zero Day Mark Russinovich
ISBN: 9780312612467 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Thomas Dunne Books Язык: Английский An insidious cyber-terrorist attack threatens to destroy the Western World in this debut by a leading expert on cybersecurity. Over the Atlantic, an airliner’s controls suddenly stop reacting. In Japan, an oil tanker runs aground when its navigational system fails. And in the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl. At first, these computer failures seem unrelated. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who saw the mistakes made before 9/11, fears that there may be a more serious attack coming. And he soon realizes that there isn’t much time if he hopes to stop an international disaster. Zero Day presents a…
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Daemon Daniel Suarez
ISBN: 0-525-95111-3, 978-0-525-95111-7 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Dutton Adult Язык: Английский Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said for the people who design them. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer—the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature…