Worm (computers)/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Information security [r]: The set of policies and protective measures used to ensure appropriate confidentiality, integrity and availability to information; usually assumed to be information in a computer or telecommunications network but the principles extend to people and the physical world ^[e]
• Malware [r]: A term created from the words "malicious" and "software", used to describe undesirable or harmful software and changes to a computer. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Morris worm [r]: The first worm (computers)) to run wild on the Internet, in 1988 ^[e]
• Slammer worm [r]: An extremely infective piece of malware, specifically a worm (computers) that crippled the Internet in 2003 ^[e]

Other related topics

• Ingress filtering [r]: A class of network security measures based on the assumption that a packet entering a network must be forged, if the network has no return route to its source address ^[e]
• Virus (computers) [r]: A piece of malware that can exist only as part of another, authorized piece of software, which is an unauthorized consumer of resources on a computer; it may or may not propagate to other computers inside software sent to them ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Intranet [r]: A set of networked computers, under one administration, which can only communicate with one another. ^[e]
• Internet Protocol version 6 laboratory [r]: An example of a testing and learning facility for familiarization with Internet Protocol version 6 ^[e]