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From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage

In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen, including the first-ever blackouts triggered by hackers. The attacks culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world's...
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Ben LoricaI am in the middle of Sandworm by @a_greenberg and it is great read. I have a feeling that recent events in the Middle East will result in cyberattacks similar to those in this book https://t.co/qLM5Z7YAdl (Source)

Laurence TribeVote augmentation looks like the newest form of election manipulation. It was a favorite Putin/GRU technique in Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine. See Andy Greenberg’s book “Sandworm.” https://t.co/0i9NSdUvzs (Source)

Jack Rhysider@selenalarson @a_greenberg wrote a great book (Source)

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Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.


MacArthur, who escaped soon after to...
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Ben LoricaI just finished the new book on the Battle of Manila: @jamesmscott3 did a masterful job piecing together archival sources and oral accounts into a great book on some of the most violent events during WW II https://t.co/cIohFTJ7Pm https://t.co/d2QIIr7xuu (Source)

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