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The worm turns.

This article reports that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has banned the use of portable memory devices among American soldiers due to the corruption of a classified computer network with a malicious software program called agent.btz. The software is known as a "worm," a type of program that se...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 389; no. 8609; p. 42
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 12/6/2008
Subjects:
Malware
Computer worms
Computer security
United States. Dept. of Defense
American military personnel
Portable computerized instruments
Access control of classified defense information
United States
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