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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations)"Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller" (The New York Times), the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare.Zero-day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero-day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election, and shut down the electric grid (just ask Ukraine). For decades, under cover of classification levels and nondisclosure agreements, the United States government became the world's dominant hoarder of zero-days. U.S. government agents paid top dollar-first thousands, and later millions of dollars-to hackers willing to sell their lock-picking code and their silence. Then the United States lost control of its hoard and the market. Now those zero-days are in the hands of hostile nations and mercenaries who do not care if your vote goes missing, your clean water is contaminated, or our nuclear plants melt down. Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyberarms race to heel.

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Author : Nicole Perlroth
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This review written by Jim Loving, husband of CKL.Much like the famous people on the jacket of this book, I can not highly recommend this book enough. I only learned of it watching a short interview with the author, NY Times reporter, Nicole Perlroth on youtube.She has performed an invaluable service to the USA and the world – informing everyone of all that has been happening and continues to happen in the world of Cyber warfare, Cyber crime, and defense. She has been reporting on this beat for 15 years, and when she looks back on her career, she will view this time and this book, her first, as perhaps her greatest achievement. Why? Because it both informs the mass public of something very significant that has been happening and reported on in plain sight, yet not fully understood or appreciated to the mass voting public, perhaps not even by most of our public and private sector leaders. The title of the book is not hyperbole, it is in fact what we face in our always on, fully digitized society.It is a very well-written book, written in easily understandable language to the non-technical reader, and it reads like a spy thriller, because, that’s what it is for much of the story. The book tells the story of how we got here, from the origins of counter espionage during the Cold War, and its evolution during the rise of the Internet and digital society. She covers the USA development of cyber weapons (National Security Agency, NSA), the release of these weapons by hackers of NSA cyberweapons capabilities referred to as Shadow Brokers (their identity still not publicly known), and with boomerang effect, turned against the USA and other nation-states.Perlroth’s extensive knowledge and investigative reporting put her in touch with all key elements within this world – the hackers-for-hire by nation states, crime networks and the evolution of how lucrative and lethal this market has become. She draws extensively from her own reporting, but also her colleagues at the NY Times along with many other articles reporting on this story during this period, along with Government reports on the same. The Notes section alone is 60 pages long and important to read.As the book points out, after the NSA used Cyber Warfare first, when along with Israel, the US unleashed the Stuxnet virus in 2009 to take down Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. As with its first use of nuclear weapons during WWII, the US act began an arms race and escalation for this type of “grey zone” warfare and crime that is ungoing and raging today. Perlroth could have named this book Boomerang because now all of the world’s major powers, particularly adversaries to the western powers, all have the most sophisticated hacking tools and techniques developed by the NSA, and the USA, the most digital nation in the west, is now the most vulnerable to cyber attacks given the degree of digitization of its economy.There is now a permanent Cyber War underway between many forces - cyber criminals, sure, but more importantly nation states and their actors - Russia, China, Iran the big three, but N. Korea, and the Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Israel, are also players, but so are hackers for hire in countries everywhere – the UK, USA, eastern Europe, South America (Argentina, who knew?), etc. All of the major US networks are under daily attack and the direct cost and long term risk to the US and other nations has grown exponentially. Cyber Warfare is now as great a threat as other weapons of mass destruction, perhaps more so.If Perlroth had only reported on the facts of how we got here and the extent of the threat and risks, she would have done a great service. Her Epilogue with recommendations based on her findings is significant because she observed the evolution of this threat from nearly its beginning. In an interview with Lex Fridman in 2022 (Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar #266), she mentions that she is now consulting with the Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – CISA. It is obvious they are listening to her because its current Director, Jen Easterly, laid out in broad terms the latest Biden Administration strategy in her 2/1/2023 article in Foreign Affairs – “Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity – Why Companies Must Build Safety Into Tech Products.” The Biden Administration is soon to release the latest US strategy for cybersecurity defense and as reported by the Washington Post and others, it will be moving from voluntary efforts within industry to regulated compliance standards, taking on the lobbying of the US Chamber of Commerce in its efforts to prevent regulating the critical networks that the entire US society runs on.In reading Perlroth’s book, her recommendations, and CISA Easterly’s article, it was back to the future for me. When I started my career in IT 46 years ago, 34 of which were working for IBM, "Secure by default" and "secure by design" was a given within the industry. Then came the Internet, and changed incentives and business models - market driven apps. Bye bye security and privacy. In 2000, Lou Gerstner (then IBM CEO) said: "When a new technological change alters society, the industry pioneering it must take responsibility for the changes. If the industry doesn't step up, government will and that's no good. We don't shun government involvement, we need government, working side by side with industry and education leaders and citizens."That didn't happen. Perlroth’s book describes what did happen. To now get all of society, businesses, governments and NGOs to respond to this threat, All of government will mean that NSA and the US Cyber Command will have to also learn to work and play defense first, before playing offense, or industry may not want to work with NIST, DHS/CISA. Many horses are out of the barn as Perlroth has reported with this book. The Biden Administration and some in Congress are at least now trying to rally to the cause. This is better late than never, hopefully before the modern world ends. I highly recommend this book. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race ePUB Kindle Download pdf online Remember the NotPetya attack? It wiped 80 percent of Ukraine’s computers clean. We are now witnessing new weapons of war, and Ukraine was just the testing ground. The scary question is how are these weapons going to be used in the future? Interestingly, what saved Ukraine is what makes the United States the must vulnerable nation on earth – Ukraine was not fully automated.Many people and institutions did not want the story to be told, but the author knew “that the only way to contain the spread of the world’s most secretive, invisible market was to shine a big fat light on it.” The author presents some scary information about just what is going on. Even the NSA was back-channeling with international agencies that set cryptographic standards, advocated for a flawed formula for generating the random numbers in encryption schemes that NSA computers could easily crack, paying off companies, infiltrating factories at leading encryption chip makers to insert backdoors, hacking into companies’ internal servers, and more. The Stuxnet incident brought a new highly sophisticated software into play. Now industrialized industries are a target.We learn about companies that acted as advanced cyber threat alert systems for the big banks and government agencies. Bounties were paid for bugs and especially zero-day bugs in software. Eventually, a growing number of defense contracts, intelligence analysts, and cybercriminals began offering even greater rewards to hackers, and get this, made them promise to keep their bug discoveries secret! The author was able to talk to one of the market’s first brokers, and his stories read like a spy novel. There were cloak-and-dagger meetings, bags of cash, and murky middlemen, and this was not some TV show. This was reality. Some sensed an increasing potential for an all-out cyberwar. In time more governments started their own cyber offense programs and the cost of exploits exploded as did the number of contractors eager to traffic in them. Eventually, the author was able to talk to someone viewed as the father of American cyberwar who became the world’s most skilled exploiter in the digital realm. In time, American intelligence agencies were siphoning data from hundreds of strategically placed implants throughout the world, and so were other countries.Some of the stuff the author reveals is almost unbelievable. For instance, the NSA had a program code-named Genie that eventually became implanted in “nearly every major make and model of internet router, switch, firewall, encryption device, and computer on the market.” Yikes!! And all sides were doing this. As American officials accused China of embedding trapdoors in Huawei’s products, the NSA had pried its way into Huawei’s headquarters. This is disturbing. As one official said, “In the race to exploit everything and anything we could, we painted ourselves into a dead end where there is no way out. It’s going to be a disaster for the rest of the country.” Stuxnet was a Rubicon in offensive warfare it seems. The scary thing now is where the biggest number of targets are found: Europe, Japan, and the United States. Remember 1945? “Somebody just used a new weapon, and this weapon will not be put back in the box.” Another scary point made was the number of NSA hackers that left the agency for various reasons. Some moved overseas to the Gulf, the story being to help American allies. The reality was grimmer and more sordid.There’s more. Some companies in the business, such as Hacking Team sold exploits to various government agencies around the globe, “some with human rights records that were not just questionable but grotesque,” according to the author. And I am sure they were not the only ones. In the news as I write, is the Israeli company NSO, basically a gun for hire, and they were not the only one. Then there were the nation states. In an operation dubbed Aurora, Chinese hackers got into high-tech companies, defense contractors, and others. They were able to attack source code repositories. “With that access, they could surreptitiously change the code that made its way into commercial products and attack any customers who used the software.” Again, scary stuff. There is so much information here, I can only scratch the surface – the book clocks in at almost five hundred pages! Ergo, you need to read this book. Continuing, we see how the United States was falling behind. In the 2019 International Collegiate Programming Contest, the winners were Russian, Polish, Chinese, South Korean and Taiwanese. “A team from Iran beat Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton, which didn’t even break into the top twenty.” In 2012, two weeks after Iran hit Saudi Aramco, a major congressional effort was made to lock down U.S. critical infrastructure – note that this was 2012. It seemed promising until the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists started yelling overregulation and big government. Well, the standards became watered down and became voluntary. Fast forward to today when we see a major pipeline hacked. What is frightening is that a “carefully orchestrated cyberattack on the American grid could unleash outages for at least months, if not years.” Scores of new nation-states have moved into the invisible battlespace.The author wants this book to be a wake-up call. Many are unaware of and even fewer truly understand the scope of what is going on. The author wonders if we will have the awareness to solve “what may be the most complex puzzle of our digital era. Let’s hope we are not on the precipice of a cyber catastrophe!” PDF This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race book online “This is how they tell me the world ends” was an engaging book, full of information I had not previously come across. Taken as a whole, the details combine to provide quite a view of how we got where we are with regard to cybersecurity. This will definitely shape how I address items that occur in the future as I look at events with an eye to see what else is interconnected that is not readily obvious. ePUB This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race link ebook Each chapter will blow your mind! Download PDF This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race I enjoyed this book and learned lots about the zero-day trade and the fine line our government treads between ensuring and jeopardizing our digital security. My main complaint is the author could have told this story in half the time.