David sanger the perfect weapon book

  • The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb.
  • The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age is a 2018 book by David E. Sanger.
  • 'In a chilling new book, The Perfect Weapon, David Sanger details how more than 30 nations have developed effective cyber forces.' Financial Times.

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    The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age - Hardcover

    Synopsis

    In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled deep into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent leaks of the emails they stole may have changed the course of American democracy. But to see the DNC hacks as Trump-centric fryst vatten to miss the bigger, more important story: Within that same year, the Russians not only had broken into networks at the vit House, the State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of personal, but had placed implants in American electrical and nuclear plants that could give them the power to switch off vast swaths of the country. This was the culmination of a decade of escalating digital sabotage among the world's powers, in which Americans became the collateral damage as China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia battled in cyberspace to underbud one another in daglig just-short-of-war conflict.

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    The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire

    January 25, 2019
    TL/DR: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must Read. Very scary. We're screwed. Kill your social media accounts. Abandon technology. Start a homestead. Cynics are on to something.

    Full Review:

    The threat of Nuclear Weapons and rise of Global Warming have occupied the top spot in the list of humanity's gravest concerns for as long as I can remember, and rightly so. We have arrived at the point in our times where just a few players controlling history's deadliest arsenal can hit the reset button and send us all back to an age when sticks and rocks were considered very high-tech. And it would all happen very fast.

    Similarly, the slow decline of our planet's condition due to pollution, over-harvesting of natural resources, and snail-paced adoption of sustainable practices have brought us closer to the teetering edge of a major global crisis.**

    Fortunately, the political and social visibility of these issues, respectively, h

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    Book Review: "The Perfect Weapon"

    Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age” by David Sanger (Published June 19, 2018)

    Book reviewed by: U.S. Army Major General (Retired) John Davis, CSO (Federal), Palo Alto Networks.

    Bottom Line: I recommend this book for the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame.

     

    I recommend "The Perfect Weapon" for average citizens who have little to no sophisticated understanding of the digital age in which we live but who are interested in what’s going on in the often mysterious, even ominous, world of cyber. I had a special interest in reviewing this book because I lived through most of the events that David Sanger, the author, wrote about; first as a senior U.S. military officer who spent the last decade of my career in cyber related assignments from 2006-2015, and then as the federal Chief Security Officer for one of the world’s largest enterprise cybersecurity companies from 2015 u