Worm : the first digital world war

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Label

Worm : the first digital world war

Title remainder

the first digital world war

Statement of responsibility

Mark Bowden

Creator

• Bowden, Mark, 1951-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Cyberterrorism
• Internet -- Security measures
• Electronic books
• Computer viruses
• Malware (Computer software)
• Computer security
• Computer crimes

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

From the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, the gripping story of the Conficker worm-the cyberattack that nearly toppled the world. 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 British Parliament and the French and German military-became infected almost instantaneously. 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 it had created was big enough that an attack might crash the world

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

005.84

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult