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What Was Code Red? The Worm They Beat by Changi...
In July 2001 a worm infected 359,000 machines in fourteen hours and pointed all of them at the White House. The attack was defeated by moving the website to a...
What Was Code Red? The Worm They Beat by Changi...
In July 2001 a worm infected 359,000 machines in fourteen hours and pointed all of them at the White House. The attack was defeated by moving the website to a...
What Was SQL Slammer? The Worm That Fit in a Si...
On 25 January 2003 a 376-byte worm reached an estimated 90% of vulnerable hosts on the internet within ten minutes. It carried no payload and did nothing once it arrived....
What Was SQL Slammer? The Worm That Fit in a Si...
On 25 January 2003 a 376-byte worm reached an estimated 90% of vulnerable hosts on the internet within ten minutes. It carried no payload and did nothing once it arrived....
What Was NotPetya? The Ransomware That Was Neve...
On 27 June 2017 a program demanding $300 in Bitcoin destroyed roughly $10 billion of value in a few hours. It was not ransomware. There was no decryption routine anywhere...
What Was NotPetya? The Ransomware That Was Neve...
On 27 June 2017 a program demanding $300 in Bitcoin destroyed roughly $10 billion of value in a few hours. It was not ransomware. There was no decryption routine anywhere...
What Was Mirai? The Botnet That Was Just a List...
In October 2016 a large part of the American internet went down because of security cameras. There was no vulnerability involved. There was a list of factory-default passwords, and telnet.
What Was Mirai? The Botnet That Was Just a List...
In October 2016 a large part of the American internet went down because of security cameras. There was no vulnerability involved. There was a list of factory-default passwords, and telnet.
What Was Log4Shell? The Logger That Ran What It...
On 9 December 2021 it became public that writing a particular string into almost any field would get it executed, on a very large fraction of the Java software in...
What Was Log4Shell? The Logger That Ran What It...
On 9 December 2021 it became public that writing a particular string into almost any field would get it executed, on a very large fraction of the Java software in...
What Was the Morris Worm? The Stealth Feature T...
On 2 November 1988 a graduate student released a program designed to spread quietly and count the internet. It brought down a chunk of it instead — not because of...
What Was the Morris Worm? The Stealth Feature T...
On 2 November 1988 a graduate student released a program designed to spread quietly and count the internet. It brought down a chunk of it instead — not because of...