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David E. Sanger / New York Times: The CrowdStrike debacle may have accidentally provided cybercriminals and countries like China a more detailed road map to disrupt US critical infrastructure  —  With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge.  The latest chaos wasn't caused by an adversary …

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My point exactly. What good is a dozen docker containers nested in four VMs if you can slap all of it aside with the giant ROOT SHELL hand because you hacked into the remote monitoring software to take control of the system.

The remote management system is now the weaket link in the system's security chain.