The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1
Symposium, 2017; Solomon B. and Fox-Brewster T., ‘Hacked
Cameras Were Behind Friday’s Massive Web Outage’, Forbes,
21 October 2016; Bours B., ‘How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam
Brought Down the Internet’, Wired, 13 December 2017.


  1. Quoted in: Bours B., ‘How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam
    Brought Down the Internet’, Wired, 13 December 2017.

  2. Background on WannaCry from: ‘What you need to know about
    the WannaCry Ransomware’, Symantec Blogs, 23 October 2017;
    Field M., ‘WannaCry cyber attack cost the NHS £92m as 19,000
    appointments cancelled’, The Telegraph, 11 October 2018;
    Wiedeman R., ‘The British hacker Marcus Hutchins and the FBI’,
    The Times, 7 April 2018.

  3. Moore D. et al., ‘The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm’,
    Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), 2003.

  4. Background on Elk Cloner from: Leyden J., ‘The 30-year-old
    prank that became the first computer virus’, The Register, 14
    December 2012.

  5. Quotes from author interview with Alex Vespignani, May 2018.

  6. Cohen F., ‘Computer Viruses – Theory and Experiments’, 1984.

  7. Background on Morris Worm from: Seltzer L., ‘The Morris Worm:
    Internet malware turns 25’, Zero Day, 2 November 2013; UNITED
    STATES of America, Appellee, v. Robert Tappan MORRIS,
    Defendant-appellant. 928 F.2D 504, 1990.

  8. Graham P., ‘The Submarine’, April 2005.
    http://www.paulgraham.com

  9. Moon M., ‘“Minecraft” success helps its creator buy a $70
    million mansion’, Engadget, 18 December 2014.

  10. Background on DDoS from: ‘Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai
    Worm Author?’, Krebs on Security, 18 January 2017; ‘Spreading
    the DDoS Disease and Selling the Cure’, 19 October 2016.

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