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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 8 months 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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