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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Here we were in the 21st century, and the lab was using an operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft. First, this is a supply chain issue.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Here we were in the 21st century, and the lab was using an operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft. First, this is a supply chain issue.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. So while the operators are trying to recover, they're also dealing with the fact that all their systems are going down.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

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These are not groups of individual hackers sitting around the table late at night as it was in teh early days of malware writing. Hypponen: Alright, original sea change for monetizing malware was 2003. That's when we started seeing the cooperation between spammers and malware writers. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006.