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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 itβthe 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.
 Media BuzzPBS News Hour - November 21, 2011
Marketplace - PRI - November 4, 2011
Fresh Air - NPR - September 27, 2011
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