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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by jdironman on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:04PM (#14327433)
If so, that is both scary and exciting.
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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by brilliantcode on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:21PM (#14327550)
it took me a while to realize this is live....
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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by jdironman on Friday May 12, 2017 @08:38PM (#14329002)
I am curious. How is this tracked? What signature or what component are they looking for to be able to say "Yeah, here is another one"?

I'm just curious and would like someone with more experience to weigh in.

EDIT: To add on further to my question, I wonder why it does not use a terrain / city / province overlay instead of all black? It seems it would be much more useful to us network and sysadmins out there just in case we realized "Oh, hey that dot is right on top of where we work out of. I should probably fire up WireShark or something and test for infected systems."

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