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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

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A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.

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Publicly pressured by sock puppets. You can see some rando doing similar in repositories for projects like Avahi.

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