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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bowden, Mark (1951-....)
Titre(s) : Worm [Texte imprimé] : the first digital world war / Mark Bowden
Publication : New York : Atlantic Monthly press, c2011
Description matérielle : x, 245 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
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
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780802119834. - ISBN 0802119832 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425332653
Notice n° :
FRBNF42533265
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
