'Black October' cyber crisis shows how criminals use AI

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA cyber-security crisis called Black October has exposed how fragile much of the world's online infrastructure is, the New York Post reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight, so nearly seventy percent of all websites use a tool called PHP, according to some estimates, and the flaws were in that.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOne hole, most of the web.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd what's PHP?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe plumbing behind the website. Cloudflare saw thousands of attack attempts within ten hours of the flaws going public.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHundreds of thousands within two hours of the news spreading.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo hours. And who fixed it?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorUpdates, Hank. New versions came out on the twenty-first, and the whole defense was people pressing install.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBritain still took more than thirty government services offline as a precaution.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHashtag, press install. I've ignored that button for years. Apparently I was just early to the crisis.