There's an incredible book by Kim Zetter called Countdown to Zero Day which is indispensable for anyone interested in Stuxnet: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-ze...

I highly recommend reading the book "Countdown to Zero Day". Stuxnet was incredibly sophisticated and explicitly targeted at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities.

https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp...

Co author is Kim Zetter the Wired journalist who has been covering Stuxnet for years and wrote a great book on it “Countdown to Zero Day”.

have you read Countdown to zero day: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KEPLC08/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... ?

It is ultimately penned for the masses, but even if you're technical you'll likely enjoy it. And there's plenty of scope for going off and doing your own research about bits and pieces.

If you're interested in this stuff, "Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter" is a fascinating read. It's both lightly written but, not light on technical details and provides a very detailed account.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-ze...

Particularly relevant for me since I'm currently reading Countdown to Zero Day.

Somewhat related, but the book Countdown to Zero Day is about both the Stuxnet worm and the potential for digital attacks on infrastructure. Very good read and intro to the topic. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KEPLC08/

Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Setter [0]

This book tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran's nuclear efforts but reads like a genuine thriller or cyberpunk novel.

[0] https://chris-lamb.co.uk/azn/B00KEPLC08

Reminded me of this book I very much enjoyed about Stuxnet - "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon". Stuxnet was a targeted attack directed at Iran's nuclear program. Quality, not quantity indeed. Super interesting to learn about these things!

If this short read piked your interest in Stuxnet, I can recommend the book "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon".

It explains in great detail how Stuxnet worked and, which I found the most exciting, how it was discovered and reverse engineered.

I'm not sure about the "not as well known" part, but these are some other books similar to Countdown to zero day and most of them have audiobooks available.

https://darknetdiaries.com/books/

It's all pretty well documented in a wide variety of sources, but if you want the definite read check out "Countdown to Zero Day" by Kim Zetter. Lots of technical information about how Stuxnet/Olympic Games actually worked. A good book as well.

Closely related is Countdown to Zero Day, an excellent book concerning the same subject matter written by Kim Zetter.

Also in the nonfiction realm - Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon was really good. Ended up reading the entire thing in one go on an airplane.

I've enjoyed "Sandworm" by Andy Greenberg (around the Russian GRU organization) and "Countdown to Zero Day" by Kim Zetter (around Stuxnet)

I read Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon a few weeks ago, and really enjoyed it.

I'd recommend giving it a read. It gives an accurate-but-uncomfortable overview of how the US government handles cyber security issues.

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon - by Kim Zetter [0]

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-ze...

I'm in the middle of reading "Countdown to Zero Day", the book about Stuxnet. It contains a very good summary of how Iran started enriching Uranium, where they acquired the technology to build the centrifuges, and how most countries that signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons attempted to reason with Iran to stop enriching Uranium.

I highly recommend it for anyone interested in this topic. And of course the detailed analysis of Stuxnet is great as well.

I thought Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon was a fantastic chronicle of Stuxnet.

For those not interested in the whole narrative, it's still interesting to browse one or two chapters of interest.

https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp...

The full list: https://gitlab.com/rlease/Books

My list lines up with a lot of books that people have recommended here, so I'll try to add a few favorites that haven't been mentioned so far.

Fiction:

1. Ubik - I read a bunch of Philip K. Dick this year, but this was my favorite. It's delightfully mind bending and left me thinking about it long after the book was done.

2. All the Pretty Horses - Beautifully written. McCarthy has an uncanny ability to paint with words.

3. Cannery Row - Short, witty, and full of interesting characters.

Nonfiction:

1. The Idea Factory - A dive into how Bell Labs became such an innovation powerhouse and gives a rounded picture of the figureheads that brought it so much fame.

2. Moonwalking with Einstein - A fun read about a journalist who took researching a memory competition a bit too seriously.

3. Countdown to Zero Day - A fascinating look at the development and deployment of Stuxnet -- the virus built to set Iran's nuclear program back.

In the same genre, I recommend "Countdown to Zero Day" which looks at Stuxnet and Flame and the events surrounding their creation, deployment and aftermath.

I find it extremely ironic. I’m currently finishing “Countdown to Zero Day” and some people are saying that NOBUS (nobody but us) doctrine reduces the attack surface considerably. Some other people highlight this mentality as extremely dangerous from a defense standpoint.

Ten years after Stuxnet/Flame saga, USA is experiencing a same kind of attack and their stated preparedness has not improved from the levels stated in that book.

It’s fascinating.

Edit: No. I’m not enjoying this. There’s no schadenfreude.

They weren't written in 2018, but some I enjoyed:

* Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution (Steven Levy)

* Masters of DOOM (David Kushner)

* The simpsons and their mathematical secrets (Simon Singh)

* Countdown to zero day (about stuxnet, by Kim Zetter)

* Sapiens: A brief history of human kind (Yuval Noah Harari)

* Coders at work (Some interviews, not all, but I enjoyed it. By Peter Seibel)

Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter.

It talks about the Stuxnet and the story behind it, and I got the chance to learn some fairly interesting stuff in the meantime (like the complexity of building a nuclear bomb).

I found it much more useful than the American Kingpin, which just mentions that Tor and Bitcoin offer anonymity online, but doesn't get anywhere even close to explaining either of the technologies that are crucial for the storyline.

We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson also made me feel kind of the same, but the writing wasn't quite as engaging as the Countdown to Zero Day was.

Kim Zetter's article evolved into the book Countdown to Zero Day

https://smile.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/...

Currently reading a few, including:

- The Good Spy - Kai Bird (Robert Ames bio)

- Becoming Steve Jobs - Brent Schlender (after reading Isaacson's Jobs' bio I figured another perspective wouldn't be horrible)

- Countdown to Zero Day - Kim Zetter (RE: Stuxnet and cyber-espionage)

And finally, I'm re-reading The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen (something of a social science approach to "Why do rebels/guerrillas/terrorists exist?")

You should read "Countdown to zero day"[0]. Some of the measures that were taken exceeded what anyone in Hollywood could ever imagine.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp...

Countdown to Zero Day - A must read on Stuxnet which plays out like a spy thriller.

Seems like a good time to plug an excellent book:

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon [0]

The US Government has spent two decades and hundreds of millions of dollars building tools to undermine the security of systems around the world, and withholding information from "Industry" that would help harden those systems.

I have no idea who "did" this, I don't really care. The NSA has been loading this footgun for decades.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital-eb...

For a broader overview of Stuxnet and the surrounding situation, I would recommend the book "Countdown to Zero Day" - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0770436196

Some books that I recently read and enjoyed:

Non-fiction
a) Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
b) Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon (Kim Zetter)
c) Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution (Steven Levy)
d) Masters of Doom (David Kushner)

Fiction:
e) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
f) Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)

Is there prior art before alleged sabotage leading to pipeline explosion in 1982? [1]

Zetter's Countdown to Zero Day points to that with skepticism and also talks about Kosovo as one of earliest cases, as does Sandworm.

Do you think this is roughly correct?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss

May I suggest a book called Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter?

Its main focus is to talk about Stuxnet, but it goes into quite some details to put that attack into context. Under the deal that the US pulled out of, IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) had the authority to walk into any space in Iran under any suspicion that they might be building a nuclear bomb there, overwriting any local law that might prohibit them from doing so. That deal is still in place, because other seven signatories weren't stupid enough to pull out of that agreement (including Iran).

Without any doubt, I'd recommend the following books:

- 'Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon' by Kim Zetter.

- 'The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage' by Clifford Stoll.

Both of these books are old-school infosec stories, and both are well worth the time. If I remember correctly, I listened to Countdown to Zero Day over a few days on Audible, and read The Cuckoo's Egg in one or two sittings in paperback.