American pop artist Andy Warhol famously said, \u2018In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.\u2019 He never knew that his words would be used to name a class of computer worms that could shut down the entire internet.<\/p>\n
Self replicating worms are a major security problem because they are capable of spreading themselves automatically without human interaction.<\/p>\n
The Warhol worm<\/strong> is a class of worms that replicate very rapidly. So rapidly that one could infect a huge # of computers on the web in as little as fifteen minutes: quickly enough so that the damage could be done before humans could intervene and stop it. Theoretically, scientists believe it would be possible for a worm like this to infect EVERY computer connected to the web within 15 minutes.<\/p>\n If combined with a destructive virus, a Warhol worm could crippled the web, disrupting banking, financial markets and defense systems worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American pop artist Andy Warhol famously said, \u2018In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.\u2019 He never knew that his words would be used to name a class of computer worms that could shut down the entire internet. Self replicating worms are a major security problem because they are capable of spreading themselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[137,23,263,236,70,370,371],"class_list":["post-7294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definition-of-the-day","tag-antivirus","tag-cyber-security","tag-definition-of-the-day","tag-hacking","tag-viruses","tag-warhol-worm","tag-worms"],"yoast_head":"\n