Zero Day

✍ Scribed by Mark Russinovich

• Book ID: 100228067
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press;Thomas Dunne Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 195 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1429968044

✦ Synopsis

An airliners controlsabruptly failmid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have toabandon 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 computerfailures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, aformer government analyst whoquit in disgust after witnessing thegross errors that led up to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious attack targeting the United Statescomputer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctionspop uparound the world, some with deadly results, herealizes that there isnt much time if he hopes toprevent an international catastrophe.

Written by aglobal 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-its a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.

Library : General
Universes : Jeff Aiken [01]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780312612467