The Rules of Contagion
you care about can be beneficial,’ Ginsburg and Burke suggested, ‘while simply watching others from the sidelines may make you f ...
6 How to own the internet W - took down websites including Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter, the attackers included kettles, fridg ...
The scale of the Mirai attack showed just how easily artificial infections can spread. Another high-profile example would emerge ...
the computer of a friend in the US Navy, these longer journeys were rare. Yet the era of localised, relatively harmless viruses ...
‘And so this one is now replicated all over the Internet, like a little worm of its own.’[9] E were true, it would pale in ...
This was where Mirai came in. The botnet was so powerful it would be able to outcompete any rivals attempting to do the same thi ...
2002, computer scientist Stuart Staniford and his colleagues wrote a paper titled ‘How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time’[1 ...
offering to arrange a five-minute DDoS attack for as little as $5, with an all-day attack costing around $400. Kaspersky calcula ...
USB sticks to several shopping kiosks near the headquarters in Kabul. Eventually an American soldier had bought one and used it ...
shame people who might use these toys. Quite the opposite: by raising the issue, they wanted to ensure that people could do what ...
AWS has generally been very reliable – the company promises working servers over 99.99 per cent of the time – and if anything th ...
pointed out that such bugs would often linger online. ‘Now here’s the mystery,’ White wrote.[31] ‘Our evidence on virus incident ...
individual level. The same is true of many trends on social media. If you’ve ever seen a strange meme spreading and wondered how ...
Koçulu protested and eventually responded by removing all of his code. That included left-pad, which meant that any chains of pr ...
competing for the same susceptible machines. Once out in the wild, Mirai would continue to change for years to come; new variant ...
longer recognises the mutated virus as a threat. We have annual flu epidemics – and annual flu vaccination campaigns – because o ...
7 Tracking outbreaks T with a murder attempt. For over ten years, Richard Schmidt, a gastroenterologist in Lafayette, Louisia ...
drawn from an patient on 4 August – just hours before he’d allegedly injected Trahan – and the procedure hadn’t been recorded i ...
Darwin’s original tree of life sketch. Species A is a distant relative of B, C, and D, which are more closely related. In the di ...
to know how an infection may have spread. For example, after sparked a major outbreak in 2003, scientists identified the virus ...
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