SN 746: A Decade of Hacks

On this Eve of 2020, we look back over the hacks of the past decade:

• The big news of 2010 was Stuxnet -- Boy did THAT make an impression
• Operation Aurora - the hack that changed Google
• The Sony Playstation Hack
• And then we have... Diginotar
• Edward Snowden
• The Target hack
• The Adobe hack
• Silk Road takedown
• Have I Been Pwned?
• The hack of Sony Pictures
• The hack of Mt. Gox
• Heartbleed
• RowHammer
• Ashley Madison data breach
• SIM swapping
• The Ukraine power grid hacks
• DNC hack
• Yahoo hacks go public
• The Shadow Brokers
• The birth of IoT botnets
• WannaCry / Petya / NotPetya
• Vault7 leaks
• MongoDB exposed
• Equifax
• Coinhive & Cryptojacking
• Meltdown, Spectre, and the CPU side-channel attacks
• Marriott gets hacked
• 2019 - The Year of the Ransomware

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-746-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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