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Cyber Wars
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Cyber Wars

by Charles Arthur
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
248 pages
6h 19m
English
Kogan Page
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Hacking: The present, the future

Data, it has been said, is the new oil but it is also the new asbestos … it is a risk, potentially toxic, to the company.

CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM, oral evidence to Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, January 20161

Millions of Americans got some bad news on 7 September 2017. Equifax, one of the largest credit scoring companies in the US, had been hacked; the personal details of roughly 143 million Americans had probably been stolen. A few days later, the company announced that it had discovered that the intrusion had occurred because it hadn’t updated one of its web interfaces which relied on a software framework called Apache Struts.

This seemed odd. A serious flaw in Struts had been publicized by the ...

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