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Solar Sunrise

A 1998 series of attacks that targeted Defense Department network domain name servers, to exploit the vulnerability in the Solaris Operating System computers that operated there. The attacks were thought to be a “reconnaissance” for a widespread attack on the entire Pentagon information infrastructure.

Permanent link Solar Sunrise - Creation date 2020-05-18


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