Worm: The First Digital World War


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Title: Worm: The First Digital World War Subtitle:
Author: Bowden, Mark Editor:
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Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Edition: 1
Copyright Year: Publication Year: 2011
ISBN#: 0-8021-1983-2 LCCN#:
Pages: 288 Translator:
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Genre: Keywords: Computers & Internet; Security & Encryption; Nonfiction; Politics
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Date Created: 2012-03-25 Date Modified: 2012-03-25
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From 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 critical government networks (including the British Parliament and the French and German military) were infected. No one had ever seen anything like it. By January 2009 the worm lay hidden in at least eight million computers and the botnet of linked computers that it had created was big enough that an attack might crash the world. This is the gripping tale of the group of hackers, researches, millionaire Internet entrepreneurs, and computer security experts who united to defend the Internet from the Conficker worm: the story of the first digital world war.