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In response to the Rolling Stone article: Patrick's job was to probe corporate networks for vulnerabilities to a malware attack known as a "sequel injectio
by Mandatum 12y ago
In response to the Rolling Stone article:
Patrick's job was to probe corporate networks for vulnerabilities to a malware attack known as a "sequel injection," which overwhelms the victim's system with meaningless commands until the system gives up and defaults to using the malicious code.
Sequel injection, huh? :P
- girvo 12y agoThat... wow. That's exactly what "Sequel injection" is, basically, you overwhelm the target with "v2.0", or the "sequel", if you will, and it just gives up and runs that code, thus "injecting" the "sequel". Holy crap.
- Mandatum 12y agoYeah aside from that and a small number of other gems, it's a really good article. Read it a long time ago when it was first published, but definitely one I can re-read for the pure enjoyment factor.
- cbd1984 12y agoAssuming they mean SQL injection... well, "sequel" is at least recognized as one of two mainstream pronunciations. My mom once pronounced that initialism as "squirrel".