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The First Digital World War
Atlantic Monthly Press
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0802119832
EAN: 9780802119834
Kindle: B005IGBHU8
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Non-Fiction
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 created was
big enough that an attack might crash the world. This is the
gripping tale of the group of hackers, researches,
millionaire Internet entrepreneurs, and computer security
experts who united to defend the Internet from the Conficker
worm: the story of the first digital world war.
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