Science and Technology

"Worm: The first Digital World War"

Mark Bowden

About the Program

Mark Bowden talks about Conficker, the computer worm that  infected more than 7 million computers - government, business, and personal - around the world in 2008-2009, and the effort to combat it.  During this event from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California, Mr. Bowden is joined by John Markoff. tech reporter for the New York Times, and TJ Campana, senior program manager for the Digital Crimes Unit at Microsoft. 

About the Authors

Mark Bowden

Mark Bowden is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine and a national correspondent for The Atlantic.  He is the author of "Black Hawk Down," "Killing Pablo," and "Guests of the Ayatollah." 


Buy the author's book from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound

Program Information

"Worm: The first Digital World War"

Watch This Program
Watch This Program

Purchase This Program

Past Airings

  • Monday, January 23rd at 6:45am (ET)
  • Sunday, December 18th at 9:30am (ET)
  • Sunday, December 11th at 7:45pm (ET)
  • Saturday, December 10th at 4:30pm (ET)
C-SPAN Radio's iPhone App