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

FOLLOWING ARTICLE
INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
WORM PROGRAM
NORMAL ACTIVITY

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