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February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...
It was two creaking servers without all the flashy security that Assange had promised in interviews with the media. The Architect rebuilt it from scratch." [ 343 ] According to Wired, "WikiLeaks had been running on a single server with sensitive backend components like the submission and e-mail archives connected to the public-facing Wiki page.
999 features nine main characters, who are forced to participate in the Nonary Game by an unknown person code-named Zero. [2] For the majority of the game, the characters adopt code names to protect their identities due to the stakes of the Nonary Game—most of their names are ultimately revealed over the course of the game, and for several their true identities are important to the plot. [10]
A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment (e.g. part of a cryptosystem, algorithm, chipset, or even a "homunculus computer"—a tiny computer-within-a-computer such as that found in Intel's AMT technology).
On 15 July 2010, the day the worm's existence became widely known, a distributed denial-of-service attack was made on the servers for two leading mailing lists on industrial-systems security. This attack, from an unknown source but likely related to Stuxnet, disabled one of the lists, thereby interrupting an important source of information for ...
In a bulletin board system (BBS), a door is an interface between the BBS software and an external application. [1] The term is also used to refer to the external application, a computer program that runs outside of the main bulletin board program.
The attackers exploited flaws in Microsoft products, services, and software distribution infrastructure. [16] [8] [2] [11]At least one reseller of Microsoft cloud services was compromised by the attackers, constituting a supply chain attack that allowed the attackers to access Microsoft cloud services used by the reseller's customers.
The Doors system also provides a way for clients and servers to get information about each other. For example, a server can check the client's user or process ID to implement access control. The Doors library normally creates and manages a pool of threads in the server process to handle calls, but it is possible to override this behavior.