ryannorth:This is from the New York Times article, “The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invad
ryannorth:This is from the New York Times article, “The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.”You hear Russians breaking into both DNC and RNC computers and you think “wow, international espionage! these must be some high-level hacking, probably using exploits that aren’t known yet, and which are very hard to defend against” but then you find out, NOPE. NOPE, NO WAY. Instead you discover:they broke in with rinky-dink grade-school baby’s-first-hack PHISHING EMAILS, the kind that our grandparents who call it “the emails” might’ve fallen forthese political parties have all the cybersecurity of a church bake salethe outcome of the election, the state of the world today, and where we go over the next four years may have been greatly influenced by, swear to God, a TWO-LETTER TYPOAmerica wtf -- source link
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