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What Was the Colonial Pipeline Attack? One Pass...
On 7 May 2021 Colonial Pipeline shut down 5,500 miles of fuel pipeline serving 45% of the US East Coast, not because the pipeline was hacked but because its billing...
What Was the Colonial Pipeline Attack? One Pass...
On 7 May 2021 Colonial Pipeline shut down 5,500 miles of fuel pipeline serving 45% of the US East Coast, not because the pipeline was hacked but because its billing...
What Was the Sony BMG Rootkit? Copy Protection ...
In 2005 Sony BMG pressed a copy-protection system onto two million music CDs that installed a kernel rootkit on any Windows machine that played them, hiding everything named $sys$ from...
What Was the Sony BMG Rootkit? Copy Protection ...
In 2005 Sony BMG pressed a copy-protection system onto two million music CDs that installed a kernel rootkit on any Windows machine that played them, hiding everything named $sys$ from...
What Was Mydoom? Still the Fastest, Twenty-Two ...
Mydoom arrived on 26 January 2004 disguised as a bounced email, became the fastest-spreading email worm ever measured within a day, and still holds the record. It left a backdoor...
What Was Mydoom? Still the Fastest, Twenty-Two ...
Mydoom arrived on 26 January 2004 disguised as a bounced email, became the fastest-spreading email worm ever measured within a day, and still holds the record. It left a backdoor...
What Was the Capital One Breach? The Firewall F...
On 22 and 23 March 2019 a misconfigured web application firewall was asked to fetch its own cloud credentials from 169.254.169.254, and it did. Three commands later, credit card applications...
What Was the Capital One Breach? The Firewall F...
On 22 and 23 March 2019 a misconfigured web application firewall was asked to fetch its own cloud credentials from 169.254.169.254, and it did. Three commands later, credit card applications...
What Was the Storm Worm? The Botnet With No Head
On 19 January 2007, the morning after windstorm Kyrill crossed Europe, an email arrived with the subject line 230 dead as storm batters Europe. The attachment was a trojan, and...
What Was the Storm Worm? The Botnet With No Head
On 19 January 2007, the morning after windstorm Kyrill crossed Europe, an email arrived with the subject line 230 dead as storm batters Europe. The attachment was a trojan, and...
What Was Conficker? Fifty Thousand Addresses a Day
Microsoft patched MS08-067 out of band on 23 October 2008. Conficker went through it four weeks later, closed the hole behind itself, and asked for its orders at fifty thousand...
What Was Conficker? Fifty Thousand Addresses a Day
Microsoft patched MS08-067 out of band on 23 October 2008. Conficker went through it four weeks later, closed the hole behind itself, and asked for its orders at fifty thousand...