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Article #624708Rash of Fortnite cheaters infected by malware that breaks HTTPS encryption
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:20
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:20
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Rash of Fortnite cheaters infected by malware that breaks HTTPS encryption https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/rash-of-fortnite-cheaters-infected-by-malware-that-breaks-https-encryption/ For our HA/CMP product ... past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp we were working on both technical/scientific cluster scaleup with national labs and commercial cluster scaleup with RDBMS vendors, including Oracle ... old post with reference to JAN1992 cluster scaleup meeting in Ellison's conference room http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 Within a few weeks, cluster scaleup is transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer for technical/scientific *ONLY* and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... we depart a vew months later. Two of the Oracle people (from the Ellison meeting) have also left and are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called the "commerce server". We are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server, the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they want to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I wrote a whole rash of posts from the period about "comfort certificates" ... the "merchant digital certificates" (part of "SSL/HTTPS") provided uses comfort with the appearance of security. part of the series in this collection of SSL digital certificate posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcerts including in this post collection http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm from http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert through http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm#comcert16 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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