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Placing a bet this was a Windows system, just as all of the other recent major "hacks" were.
by exabrial 2y ago
Placing a bet this was a Windows system, just as all of the other recent major "hacks" were.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoHeart bleed, Log4J, triangulation, spectre, rowhammer, almost every single website hack, every single social engineer attack, only by chance xz… Yea. Windows sucks, but that is often off topic.
- sva_ 2y agoI think most of the things you listed weren't really used in the wild, at least not at scale?
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoI’m pretty sure every phishing attack almost ever was used in the wild and OS-agnostic. The rest of the list was off the top of my head. Other than WannaCry and Stux, how many large scale windows malwares can you name without looking them up?
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- sva_ 2y agoYeah that's the exception I had in mind. I guess you could call it social engineering, but it seems like the words Microsoft Outlook and Active Directory are way overrepresented in these attack vectors (hopefully not in this particular case.)
- NegativeK 2y agoI try my hardest to avoid Windows, but implying that Linux/etc are effectively immune to major hacks is absurd.
- exabrial 2y agoplease quote me where I said the second part