| Title |
Worm : the first digital world war |
| Sub Title |
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| Author(s) |
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| Call No |
005.84 BOW |
| Subject(s) |
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| ISBN |
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| Volume |
, |
| Publisher Name |
Atlantic Monthly Company |
| Publishing Year |
2011 |
| Edition |
1st |
| Pages |
245 |
| Price |
25.00 USD |
| Text Language |
English |
| Available |
Yes, Accessions:[ 44581, 44738 ] |
| Description |
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 |
| Keywords |
Computer viruses; Cyberterrorism; Computer crimes |