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Why Russia’s massive cyberattack is especially insidious

The fallout from massive Russian cyberattacks on the U.S. government and private companies continues to spread, touching everything from Cox Communications to an Arizona County to the U.S. agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Experts say even more victims will likely emerge. But perhaps the most stunning part of the attack is that it was perpetrated using the very services designed to keep computer networks safe in the first place: system updates. The hackers did this by… Source link

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