Trojan Horse
It’s two years post-Zero Day, and former government analyst Jeff
Aiken is reaping the rewards for crippling al-Qaida’s attack on the
computer infrastructure of the Western world. His cyber - security
company is flourishing, and his relationship with Daryl Haugen
intensifies when she becomes a part of his team.
But the West is
under the East’s greatest threat yet. The Stuxnet virus that
successfully subverted Iran’s nuclear defense program for years is being
rapidly identified and defeated, and Stuxnet’s creators are stressed to
develop a successor. As Jeff and Daryl struggle to stay together,
they’re summoned to disarm the attack of a revolutionary, invisible
trojan that alters data without leaving a trace. As the trojan
penetrates Western intelligence, the terrifying truth about Iran is
revealed, and Jeff and Daryl find themselves running a desperate race
against time to reverse it - while the fate of both East and West hangs
in the balance.
Like Zero Day, Trojan Horse is a thrilling suspense
story, a sober warning from one of the world’s leading experts on
cyber-security, Microsoft’s Technology Fellow, Mark Russinovich. Trojan
Horse demystifies the dangerously realistic threat of a cyber-terrorism
attack on the Western world, while chronicling the lengths through
which one man and will go to stop it.