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Worm: The First Digital World War (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for WormFrom the author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the story of the battle between those determined to exploit the internet and those committed to protect it--the ongoing war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and criti
Full description- Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Published: 20 October 2011
- Format: Hardback 245 pages
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- Categories: Political Control & Freedoms | History Of Engineering & Technology | Computing: General | Computer Security | Computer Viruses, Trojans & Worms
- ISBN 13: 9780802119834 ISBN 10: 0802119832
- Sales rank: 161,217
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Full description for Worm
Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a look at the ongoing and largely unreported war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. When the Conficker computer worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. Was it a platform for criminal profit, or a weapon? The worm, exploiting security flaws in Microsoft Windows, grew at an astonishing rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within weeks. Once the worm infiltrated one system it was able to link that system with others to form a single network under illicit outside control, a situation known as a "botnet," soon capable of overpowering any of the vital computer networks that today control banking, telephone service, energy flow, air traffic, health-care information, even the Internet itself. This book reports on the battle between those determined to exploit the Internet and those committed to protect it.--From publisher description.
