1. 18th September 2014: Home Depot disclosed that its data breach was estimated to impact 56 million unique payment cards.

Home Depot disclosed that its data breach was estimated to impact 56 million unique payment cards.

https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1968870469408309285

1. 18th September 2001: The Nimda worm was released. Utilizing 5 different infection vectors, it became the most widespread virus/worm ever after only 22 minutes.

Why "Nimda"?

$ echo "admin" | rev

nimda

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8th July 2008: Several DNS vendors released patches to mitigate an attack method discovered by Dan Kaminsky which could be used to cause DNS cache poisoning. Kaminsky had discovered the vulnerability 6 months prior and reported it to vendors privately so they could address it. RIP, Dan.

https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1942695691270193211

10th July 1999: Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member DilDog debuted the program Back Orifice 2000 (BO2k) at DEF CON 7. It was the successor to Back Orifice, released by cDc a year prior. DilDog proclaimed it "a remote administration tool for corporate America".

https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1943440335608385876

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