Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 11/18/23
The story of the Mirai creators, Laws needed to restrain data brokers, Fears of cyberwar are making things worse, Farewell to coding in the AI era, The deadly disinformation front in the Hamas war
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The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
Wired’s Andy Greenberg tells the extensive tale of three young hackers behind the Mirai DDoS botnet, which brought down a vast swath of the internet in September 2016, including that of noted cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, a misstep that ultimately attracted the attention of the FBI but ironically gave the hackers’ a path to becoming legitimate white hat security researchers.
After a typical sleepless night at his keyboard, 19-year-old Josiah White sat staring at the three flatscreen monitors he’d set up on a …
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