Worm : the first digital world war / Mark Bowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowden, Mark, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer viruses.

Cyberterrorism.

Computer crimes.

Physical Description:

x, 245 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2011]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Zero

MS08-067

Remote thread injection

An ocean of suckers

The X-men

Digital detectives

A note from the trenches

Another huge win

Mr. Joffe goes to Washington

Cybarmageddon

April fools.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780802119834

0802119832

OCLC:

701810742