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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

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Okay, how exactly did we get on this treadmill with computers? The first use of passwords with computing systems dates back to around 1960 when Fernado Corbato at MIT first introduced the concept. Back then, these were dumb terminals on a smart mainframe so computing time was shared among many people. Something better?

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

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Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? Vamosi: The internet. terabits per second.

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