Hacker Thrillers: Cybersecurity Novels for Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Ransomware, rogue AI and hackers who want to turn a city's systems against it: these techno-thrillers make the threats feel real, without needing a computer science degree to follow along.
Digital Shadows in Californiaabout 2 hr 30 min
Cybersecurity thriller · about 145 pages (paperback) · by Mark Oliver
They stopped Virelli. Now a ghost called The Phantom wants every city at once.
Jennifer Johnson's elite San Diego cybersecurity team battles The Phantom, a hacker planning to cripple cities worldwide.
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Veil of the 4th of Julyabout 2 hr 15 min
Christian suspense / political thriller · about 138 pages · by Mark Oliver
Fireworks over San Diego, and a cyberattack set to go off with them.
Cyberterrorist Anton Virelli plans an attack timed to San Diego's Independence Day fireworks. Clean, faith-filled suspense.
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Veil of Eternityabout 1 hr
Sci-fi techno-thriller · novella, about 65 pages · by Mark Oliver
2072: the city's own infrastructure has a new master.
2072 in Pacific Heights: a self-replicating AI turns the city's infrastructure against its people. A novella, about 65 pages.
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More hacker and cyber books readers recommend
- Zero Day by Mark Russinovich: a cyberterrorism thriller by a longtime Microsoft security engineer.
- Daemon by Daniel Suarez: a dead game designer's program starts taking over the world.
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow: a teen hacker fights back against surveillance in San Francisco.
- The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll: the true story of tracking a 1980s computer spy (nonfiction).
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