Zero day is a book in the style of crichton and clancy, weaving technical fact into the story. A jeff aiken novel jeff aiken series series by mark russinovich. In the first book zero day we meet jeff aiken a forensics specialist that runs his own company where he travels from client to client helping them. Ive published a blog post detailing all new features here. Internals and the sysinternals administrators reference, both from microsoft press, authored the cyberthriller zero day. In zero day, mark russinovich gives us a frightening glimpse of a realistic scenario a concerted cyber attack on western infrastructure thats all too easy to believe. In the very beginning of the book there is an airplane scene. Mark russinovich books list of books by author mark. I can only hope that zero day makes it to movie form and the director cares about my opinion. Zero day by mark russinovich book trailer cosproductions. Mark russinovich is a technical fellow in windows azure, microsofts cloud operating system group. An oil tanker runs aground in japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. This book will be published by thomas dunne books on march 15, 2011.
Microsoft windows servertm 2003, windows xp, and windows 2000 prodeveloper, and more on. An airliners controls abruptly fail midflight over the atlantic. A nonfiction view mark russinovich last year, mark russinovich published the cyber thriller zero day. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Its two years after the zero day attacks, and cybersecurity analyst jeff aiken is reaping the rewards for crippling alqaidas assault on the computer infrastructure of the western world. This book has a really good plot and some scenes that actually brought about a reaction. Book to screen in the news video interviews fully booked podcast. Presented as an exciting fiction story, the narrative sweeps you along at a relentless pace, the characters and writing are excellent, and the story itself is great. That gives him an excellent background to weave a story of suspense about a hidden cyber code written by hackers and used by terrorists. An oil tanker runs aground in japan when its navigati.
Mark russinovich takes it one step further to show how their grip on. The title of this book is zero day and it was written by mark russinovich, howard schmidt foreword. He has authored several nonfiction and fiction books, including the microsoft press windows internals book series, troubleshooting with the sysinternals tools, as well as fictional cybersecurity thrillers zero day, trojan. Microsoft azure, author of novels rogue code, zero day and trojan horse, windows internals, sysinternals utilities. A cyberthriller by a real deal software genius, mark russinovich, zero day is blurbed by bill gates. Mark russinovich works at microsoft in one of the seniormost technical positions. A number of the cybersecurity canon candidates ive discussed so far have been heavier reads. A thoughtprovoking new short story from the acclaimed author of zero day and trojan horse.
Editions of zero day by mark russinovich goodreads. In russinovich s wellcrafted third jeff aiken novel after. Discover book depositorys huge selection of mark russinovich books online. Considering the background of the author, the premise of zero day becomes even more compelling. A mustread for all americans and for those entrusted with our security and our survival. Zero day, by longtime security researcher mark russinovich. I keep abreast of the latest events and trends by reading professional journals, news sites, blogs and books. Zero day series book 1 mark russinovich author howard schmidt author of introduction, etc. Read zero day a jeff aiken novel by mark russinovich available from rakuten kobo. Russinovich is a popular speaker at industry conferences such as microsoft ignite, microsoft build and rsa conference. See all books authored by mark russinovich, including zero day, and microsoft windows internals.
But there are some lighter books i think are worthy of consideration, too. Its two years after the zero day attacks, and cybersecurity analyst jeff aiken is reaping the rewards for crippling alqaidas assault on the computer infrastructure of. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading zero day. Mark russinovich s technical blog covering topics such as windows troubleshooting, technologies and security. Martins griffin and has a total of 336 pages in the book. Zero day by mark russinovich the big thrill the big thrill. Author info mark russinovich works at microsoft as a technical fellow, microsofts seniormost technical position. Books go search best sellers gift ideas new releases deals store. Several seemingly unrelated incidents take place all over the world, all involving computer failures. Russinovich wrote livekd, a utility included with the book inside windows 2000. Mark eugene russinovich born december 22, 1966 is a spanishborn american software. Mark russinovich works at microsoft as a technical fellow, microsofts seniormost technical position.
Read an excerpt from the novel, and learn more about the book and author at the zero day website and blog. One of the reasons i started this blog was to talk about novels that do this very thing. You can find out more and preorder on the zero day web site and ive started a zero day blog there that will focus exclusively on book and cybersecurity news and tips. Russinovich was born in salamanca, spain and was raised in birmingham, alabama, united states, until he was 15, when he moved. Learn more about the books zero day and trojan horse by author mark russinovich. Announcing trojan horse, the novel, by mark russinovich, mark russinovich s blog, 8 may 2012, last visited 6 february 20. Last year, mark russinovich published the cyber thriller zero day. He was a cofounder of software producers winternals before it was acquired by microsoft in 2006. If you like the sysinternals tools, the articles i post on this blog, are interested. I caught up with mark this week while he is busy promoting his novel and. This one and the sequel called trojan horse that he published in 2012. In this session, russinovich explains the scenario, tools, and. Operation desolation was published just before trojan horse and takes place 1 year after the events of zero day.
Challenging anonymous is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. He is also author of the popular sysinternals tools. Im excited to announce that my first novel, a cyber thriller entitled zero day, is now available at all major book retailers. A jeff aiken novel jeff aiken series book 1 kindle edition by russinovich, mark, howard schmidt. Written by a global authority on cyber security, zero day presents a chilling what if scenario. 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 todayits a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen. He joined the company when microsoft acquired winternals software, which he confounded in 1996. Mark russinovich is a cybersecurity expert who has turned his considerable knowledge into a very scary and tooplausible novel.
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