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Who Created the ILOVEYOU Virus? Charged Under a...

Onel de Guzman wrote ILOVEYOU, and in 2020 he said so. In 2000 the first arrest was of someone else, and the charge he did face was under a 1998...

Who Created the ILOVEYOU Virus? Charged Under a...

Onel de Guzman wrote ILOVEYOU, and in 2020 he said so. In 2000 the first arrest was of someone else, and the charge he did face was under a 1998...

Who Was Arrested for WannaCry? The Only Handcuf...

Nobody has been arrested for WannaCry. Three North Korean programmers have been charged with building it, one has been sanctioned for it, and the only person in the story who...

Who Was Arrested for WannaCry? The Only Handcuf...

Nobody has been arrested for WannaCry. Three North Korean programmers have been charged with building it, one has been sanctioned for it, and the only person in the story who...

Who Created Stuxnet? The Answer Everyone Knows ...

Everyone answers this question the same way, and no government has ever confirmed it. The two details usually offered as proof — the myrtus path string and the 19790509 infection...

Who Created Stuxnet? The Answer Everyone Knows ...

Everyone answers this question the same way, and no government has ever confirmed it. The two details usually offered as proof — the myrtus path string and the 19790509 infection...

What Was Follina? The Diagnostic Tool That Ran ...

Follina, CVE-2022-30190, let a Microsoft Office document run code with no macro by abusing the ms-msdt URL scheme, the handler for the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool. It fired from the...

What Was Follina? The Diagnostic Tool That Ran ...

Follina, CVE-2022-30190, let a Microsoft Office document run code with no macro by abusing the ms-msdt URL scheme, the handler for the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool. It fired from the...

What Was the Equifax Breach? The Door Was Patch...

In 2017 attackers walked through an unpatched Apache Struts flaw into Equifax and took the personal data of about 147.9 million people. They went undetected for weeks because the device...

What Was the Equifax Breach? The Door Was Patch...

In 2017 attackers walked through an unpatched Apache Struts flaw into Equifax and took the personal data of about 147.9 million people. They went undetected for weeks because the device...

What Was the Bangladesh Bank Heist? Stopped by ...

Over a weekend in February 2016, attackers used the SWIFT network to try to move nearly $951 million out of Bangladesh Bank's account at the Federal Reserve, after planting malware...

What Was the Bangladesh Bank Heist? Stopped by ...

Over a weekend in February 2016, attackers used the SWIFT network to try to move nearly $951 million out of Bangladesh Bank's account at the Federal Reserve, after planting malware...