Worm: The First Digital World War - Couverture rigide

Bowden, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802119832 ISBN 13 : 9780802119834

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011

Synopsis

Worm From the author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the story of the battle between those determined to exploit the internet and those committed to protect it--the ongoing war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government networks (including the British Parliament and the French and German military) were infected. No one had ever seen anything like it. By January 2009 the worm lay hidden in at least eight million computers and the botnet of linked computers that it had...

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

One of the more reader-friendly examples of recent tech journalism --Scottish Sunday Herald

Even simplified for the lay reader, the elegance and audacity of the sparring between Conficker's still unknown creators and the 'white hats' who set out to thwart them is gripping. But more than that, it tells us something scary about how vulnerable the internet is, and something rather encouraging about how ingeniously and selflessly people can cooperate in its defence. --Guardian

As a writer, Mark Bowden scans the horizon then points to a distant danger the rest of the world cannot yet see... he unscrews the backs of our computers and takes us on a guided tour of the internet where he reveals the chilling extent of its vulnerability. --Scotland on Sunday

Présentation de l'éditeur

Worm is the gripping story of the 'Conficker' virus- 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 its creators and defeat them.

This dramatic cybercrime story travels from the Ukraine to the United States (and all parts in between) to explore the next frontier in terrorism. It is the story of a dazzling battle of wits over the future of the Internet. In Worm, Mark Bowden delivers an unputdownable account of the ongoing and largely unreported war taking place literally beneath our fingertips.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0802119832
• ISBN 13: 9780802119834
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288