Crisis and aftermath
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 32 (6) , 678-687
- https://doi.org/10.1145/63526.63527
Abstract
Last November the Internet was infected with a worm program that eventually spread to thousands of machines, disrupting normal activities and Internet connectivity for many days. The following article examines just how this worm operated.Keywords
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