Zero Day: A Novel - Book Review
Zero Day: A Novel, by Mark Russinovich is a techno-thriller involving an attack using worms with 0-day vulnerabilities - just discovered bugs that can't be properly countered because they were not patched yet.
Unfortunately, this isn't SF in any way. We live in a net with a large risk of infections.
Recently a simple search found 7200 vulnerable critical systems online - such as energy, water, traffic control systems, etc. And the 7200 is just the list DHS found critical - the list started with about 500,000 devices! And any vulnerability in the embedded web servers or a bad password can allow them to be cracked.
So if anything, the book ending is actually somewhat positive compared to reality. :-(
Overall, very good albeit a little depressing read (all those remainders of our state of security). Well, maybe it will make you update your AV, firewall and make a backup.
Unfortunately, this isn't SF in any way. We live in a net with a large risk of infections.
Recently a simple search found 7200 vulnerable critical systems online - such as energy, water, traffic control systems, etc. And the 7200 is just the list DHS found critical - the list started with about 500,000 devices! And any vulnerability in the embedded web servers or a bad password can allow them to be cracked.
So if anything, the book ending is actually somewhat positive compared to reality. :-(
Overall, very good albeit a little depressing read (all those remainders of our state of security). Well, maybe it will make you update your AV, firewall and make a backup.
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