Mark Bowden

Worm: the First Digital World War Mark Bowden

Publisher Marketing:"Worm: The First Digital World War" tells the story of the Conficker worm, a potentially devastating piece of malware that has baffled experts and infected more than twelve million computers worldwide. When Conficker was unleashed in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. Exploiting security flaws in Microsoft Windows, it grew at an astonishingly rapid rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within weeks. Once the worm infiltrated one system it was able to link it with others to form a single network under illicit outside control known as a botnet. This botnet was soon capable of overpowering any of the vital computer networks that control banking, telephones, energy flow, air traffic, health-care information even the Internet itself. Was it a platform for criminal profit or a weapon controlled by a foreign power or dissident organization? Surprisingly, the U. S. government was only vaguely aware of the threat that Conficker posed, and the task of mounting resistance to the worm fell to a disparate but gifted group of geeks, Internet entrepreneurs, and computer programmers. But when Conficker s controllers became aware that their creation was encountering resistance, they began refining the worm s code to make it more difficult to trace and more powerful, testing the Cabal lock s unity and resolve. Will the Cabal lock down the worm before it is too late? Game on." Review Citations: Audio File Best Nonf & Culture 12/01/2011 pg. 25 (EAN 9781455825226, Compact Disc) Audio File 12/01/2011 pg. 38 (EAN 9781455825226, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal 05/01/2011 pg. 60 (EAN 9780802119834, Hardcover) Booklist 10/01/2011 pg. 9 (EAN 9780802119834, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 09/26/2011 (EAN 9780802119834, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2011 (EAN 9780802119834, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 10/07/2011 (EAN 9780802119834, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Bowden, Mark Mark Bowden is the author of nine books, including the #1 New York Times best seller Black Hawk Down. He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and other magazines. His most recent book is Worm: The First Digital World War. Contributor Bio:  Lane, Christopher Christopher Lane is a prolific writer who has published 15 books for the inspirational and religious market, including six children's novels, one of which won the Gold Medallion Award and another the C. S. Lewis Award. He continues to write for the Christian market. This first mystery is his debut in the American Booksellers market. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.