17 must-read history books like The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire by David E. Sanger

Cover of The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire by David E. Sanger

The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire

By: David E. Sanger

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cy…

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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

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"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

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"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

3. Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

By: Fred Kaplan

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House polic… read more

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4. 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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5. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

By: Tony Koltz , Colin Powell

3.69

Format: None pages, ebook

It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendar… read more

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6. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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Cover of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton

7. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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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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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

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

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9. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

Cover of Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg

10. 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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Cover of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

11. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

By: Scott J. Shapiro

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more

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"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"

-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

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

12. 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

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Cover of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth

13. 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

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"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

14. 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

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"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 Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

15. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

By: Christian Brose

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more

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"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

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16. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea… read more

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"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating i…"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

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17. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

By: Amy B. Zegart

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more

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Cover of The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America by Jim Sciutto

18. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

By: Jim Sciutto

4.10

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Are we losing a war few of us realize we’re fighting? Jim Sciutto, CNN’s Chief National Security … read more

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Cover of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry  Farrell

19. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

By: Henry Farrell

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more

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Cover of The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire by David E. Sanger

20. The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire

By: David E. Sanger

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cy… read more

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Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

21. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

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Kim Zetter

4.17

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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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

Andy Greenberg

4.36

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Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

Brian Krebs

3.75

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

Kim Zetter

4.17

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

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

4.12

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

Chris Miller

4.44

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