15 Top history books like The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben Buchanan

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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

By: Ben Buchanan

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read...It reveals important truths."--Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer "One of the finest boo…

If you liked the history plot in The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben Buchanan , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin D. Mitnick, Robert Vamosi

1. The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , Robert Vamosi

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for c… read more

Similar categories in Kevin D. Mitnick's The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • computers
  • technology
  • hackers
  • nonfiction
  • science
"In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening."

-Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

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

2. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

By: Kim Zetter

4.17

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at… read more

Similar categories in Kim Zetter's Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • computers
  • espionage
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called S…"

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

Cover of Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak

3. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and n… read more

Similar categories in Kevin D. Mitnick's Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • computers
  • hackers
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen

4. The Pentagon's Brain

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • technology

5. Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking

By: Paul Wilson , Christopher Hadnagy

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The first book to reveal and dissect the technical aspect of many social engineering maneuversFrom … read more

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6. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

By: Clifford Stoll

4.15

Format: 200 pages,

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Cover of The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

7. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

8. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

9. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill

10. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier

11. A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

By: Bruce Schneier

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Schneier's A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • computers
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg

12. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

By: Andy Greenberg

4.36

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the futu… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • hackers
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

13. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

By: Kai-Fu Lee

4.10

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Cover of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

14. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

Similar categories in Andy Greenberg's Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • technology
Cover of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth

15. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

By: Nicole Perlroth

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"

-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Cover of Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn

16. Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

By: Joseph Menn

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, o… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Menn's Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • computers
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • hackers
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"Security is about how you configure power, and who has access to what. That is political,"

-Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

"If the combination of mindless, profit-seeking algorithms, dedicated geopolitical adversaries, and corrupt US opportunists over the past few years has taught us anything, it is that serious applied t…"

-Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

Cover of The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben  Buchanan

17. The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

By: Ben Buchanan

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read...It reveals important truths."--Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer "One of the finest boo… read more

Similar categories in Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics book and Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

  • computers
  • espionage
  • international relations
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • hackers
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre

18. Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books An award-winning defense expert tells the story … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer

19. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

By: P.W. Singer

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter an… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence by James M. Olson

20. To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence

By: James M. Olson

3.91

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

How the US is losing the counterintelligence war and what the country should do to better protect o… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI by Ben Buchanan

21. The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI

By: Ben Buchanan

4.16

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

AI is revolutionizing the world. Here’s how democracies can come out on top. Artificial intelligen… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science

16 Top politics books like The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben Buchanan

Transform Your Habits

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

Kim Zetter

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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Transform Your Habits

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Enemies: A History of the FBI

Tim Weiner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

3.70

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