Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Quite an overall fascinating read regarding internet security & fraud--mainly focused on the Cornficker worm that has infected thousands & thousands of computers loaded with the Microsoft Windows OS. MS really screwed it up with vulnerabilities to Port 445 (I think that was it--lots of #s swirled in this book). Interesting to read how vulnerable the infrastructure the internet worldwide is and how vulnerable US government/military internet networks are--and now LITTLE the US government, at least prior to 2009-2010 was doing about it. I think things have improved since then, but there was horribly dangerous exposure up to that point--and will always be bad/dark guys--"Black Hats"--who are looking at ways they can explore & exploit weaknesses & openings.


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