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What Were Spectre and Meltdown? One of Them Got...
On 3 January 2018 two attacks on speculative execution went public, six days before the embargo was due to lift. Meltdown was fixable and got fixed. Spectre was not a...
What Were Spectre and Meltdown? One of Them Got...
On 3 January 2018 two attacks on speculative execution went public, six days before the embargo was due to lift. Meltdown was fixable and got fixed. Spectre was not a...
What Was the OPM Breach? The One That Does Not ...
The Office of Personnel Management lost background investigation records on 21.5 million people in 2015. Of those, 1.8 million had never applied for anything — they were spouses and cohabitants...
What Was the OPM Breach? The One That Does Not ...
The Office of Personnel Management lost background investigation records on 21.5 million people in 2015. Of those, 1.8 million had never applied for anything — they were spouses and cohabitants...
What Was the RSA SecurID Breach? The Token Was ...
In March 2011 an email titled 2011 Recruitment Plan went to a handful of EMC employees, landed in junk, and was retrieved. Two months later the material taken from RSA...
What Was the RSA SecurID Breach? The Token Was ...
In March 2011 an email titled 2011 Recruitment Plan went to a handful of EMC employees, landed in junk, and was retrieved. Two months later the material taken from RSA...
What Was Operation Aurora? The Attack That Went...
Operation Aurora is remembered as the attack on Gmail accounts belonging to Chinese dissidents. That access turned out to be thin. What the attackers went after across more than thirty...
What Was Operation Aurora? The Attack That Went...
Operation Aurora is remembered as the attack on Gmail accounts belonging to Chinese dissidents. That access turned out to be thin. What the attackers went after across more than thirty...
What Was the Melissa Virus? The Worm That Only ...
On 26 March 1999 a Word document posted to a newsgroup mailed itself to the first fifty people in your address book, and kept doing that until corporate mail servers...
What Was the Melissa Virus? The Worm That Only ...
On 26 March 1999 a Word document posted to a newsgroup mailed itself to the first fifty people in your address book, and kept doing that until corporate mail servers...
What Was Shamoon? The Attack That Bought the Wo...
On 15 August 2012, during Ramadan, Shamoon overwrote roughly 30,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco and left a picture behind. It is remembered as an attack on an oil company, and...
What Was Shamoon? The Attack That Bought the Wo...
On 15 August 2012, during Ramadan, Shamoon overwrote roughly 30,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco and left a picture behind. It is remembered as an attack on an oil company, and...