Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 12/2/23
The hidden story of HHS' state-sponsored hack, College students subjected to massive tracking, China's expansion into destructive capabilities, Meta's long slog to E2EE, Silicon Valley's AI arms race
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The Untold Story of a Massive Hack at HHS in Covid’s Early Days
Bloomberg’s Jordan Robertson and Riley Griffin tell the story of how a seemingly unremarkable March 15, 2020, DDoS cyberattack on the computer network for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was a smokescreen for a state-sponsored probe of computer networks associated with the US’s pandemic response.
[Two HHS officials involved in the response, former Chief Information Officer Jose Arrieta and former Chief Information Security Officer Janet Vogel and two other officials] believe the scope, complexity and timing of the attacks point to …
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