Section 6.48 Worms

Question 1

Worm

Answer 1

Piece of malicious software, much like a virus, but it can replicate itself without any user interaction.

Able to self-replicate and spread throughout your network without a user’s consent or their action

Question 2

Worms are dangerous for two reasons

Answer 2

1. Infect your workstation and other computing assets
2. Cause disruptions to your normal network traffic since they are constantly trying
   to replicate and spread themselves across the network

Worms are best known for spreading far and wide over the internet in a relative short
amount of time

Question 3

Conficker

Answer 3

One of the largest worms as it was able to infect between 9 and 15 million machines

Windows operating system was missing a secutiy patch and was infected

Cyber security analyst were able to shutdown the attackers botnet before it was used for any mlaicious purposes