Worm The First Digital World War

by Bowden, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780802119834
• ISBN10: 0802119832
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-27
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Summary

The fascinating story of the Conficker computer worm, which since its introduction in November 2008 has infected millions of computers around the world, and the cyber-security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find Conficker's creators and defeat them.

Author Biography

Mark Bowden is the author of seven books, including Black Hawk Down, The Best Game Ever, Killing Pablo, and Guests of the Ayatollah. He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and other magazines. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Principal Characters	p. ix
Zero	p. 1
MS08-067	p. 27
Remote Thread Injection	p. 47
An Ocean of Suckers	p. 65
The X-Men	p. 89
Digital Detectives	p. 101
A Note from the Trenches	p. 121
Another Huge Win	p. 137
Goes to Washington	p. 161
Cybarmageddon	p. 189
April Fools	p. 213
Sources	p. 235
Notes	p. 237
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