Worm : the first digital world war
Record details
- ISBN: 0802119832 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780802119834 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
x, 245 p. ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | B&T 25.00 |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Computer viruses Cyberterrorism Computer crimes |
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- 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | 005.8 BOW (Text) | 35140000946965 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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.