{"id":1320,"date":"2014-12-06T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2014-12-06T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:12:15","slug":"countdown-to-zero-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/12-06-2014\/countdown-to-zero-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Zero Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of a computer virus has become fairly common, and doesn&#8217;t always garner that much attention anymore. Large scale attacks are talked about by the public for a while, then they face away. Some people, however, are tasked with deciphering a virus and taking steps to keep it from spreading further. Stuxnet made the news, but the full story took time to find out, and is now shared in <em>Countdown to Zero Day<\/em>, by Kim Zetter.<\/p>\n<p>The appearance of Stuxnet is public knowledge, but what it did, and why it was unleashed, isn&#8217;t as widely spread. Zetter tells the different stories involved that make up the whole story; from planning to developing to releasing, and then to the detection and investigation. She describes what made the virus so different, and how the researchers went about tearing into it.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is a lengthy and detailed account, the book is easy to understand. Even people who aren&#8217;t real familiar with computers can comprehend what is said, as technical terms and products are explained in plain language. Despite dealing with a highly technical subject, <em>Countdown to Zero Day<\/em> moves along at a good pace. The events that transpired are documented thoroughly, and there isn&#8217;t any kind of bias evident in the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I received this book from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BloggingForBooks.org\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging for Books<\/a> for this review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of a computer virus has become fairly common, and doesn&#8217;t always garner that much attention anymore. Large scale attacks are talked about by the public for a while, then they face away. Some people, however, are tasked with deciphering a virus and taking steps to keep it from spreading further. Stuxnet made the news, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}