The book that I have chosen to read
for my free reading book is a book called Worm.
This book is by Mark Bowden. The story talks about the digital war that is
being fought around the world. Computers are hacked all the time and have not
gotten as much press as these hackings should get. One attack the book focuses
on is the Conficker worm. I had never heard of this attack so I was interested
in reading about what this virus had done. After reading the back cover I was
surprised that I did not hear about this, or possibly I do not remember, but
the worm had taken over 1.5 million computers. The worm also infected networks
of banks, British Parliament, French military, and German Military. This is
huge, an attack on militaries and the British Parliament hold valuable
information that should not be exposed. This
information is interesting to me because I did not realize to the extent of how
large of an attack this worm did, and the security risks also involved with the
information needing to be protected.
Above is a link to the Amazon description
to the book incase more information is needed about the book. Below is a picture of book.
Link to picture: bit.ly/pGQLjY
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