Security News > 2011 > January > Microsoft Windows guru turns to cybercrime (fiction)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/24/russovich_novel/ By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco The Register 24th January 2011 One of Microsoft's top Windows gurus and author of books and tools for securely coding Windows has embraced fiction with a debut tackling international cyber crime. Platform and Services Division technical fellow Mark Russinovich has delivered a Die-Hard-4-style novel called Zero Day [1]. It tells the story of Osama-bin-Laiden-backed terrorists exploiting our decadent, infidel society's over-reliance on computers and the web. Russinovich's site calls his work a chilling "'what if' scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today -- itâs a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen". [1] http://astore.amazon.com/infosecnews-20/detail/031261246X [...]
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