Crisis and aftermath

  • Authors:
  • E. H. Spafford

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1989

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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.