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testeronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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testeronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.
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    There are sysadmins that discover a major vulnerabilities though troubleshooting

    The key is the number of people involved

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      So obscure projects are fucked.

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        No one cares about obscure projects from an attack perspective. What you should be worried about is the dependency chain.

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