Tag: Cyberattacks and Hackers

Inside the Biden-Netanyahu Phone Call, and a Narrowly Averted Cyberattack

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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine. It’s a messy patchwork that has been assembled over decades, and is held together with the digital equivalent of Scotch tape and bubble gum. Much of it relies on open-source software that is thanklessly maintained by […]

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