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A guided tour to someone else’s network

BREAKING IN

Author(s): KURT SEIFRIED

You need to think like an attacker to keep your network safe. We asked security columnist Kurt Seifried for an inside look at the art of intrusion.

In June 2009, a virtualization product aimed at web servers was found to have a few security vulnerabilities. The end result was that about 100,000 web sites got hacked and deleted at a number of different providers. (It’s not clear how many were recovered.)


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