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Kevin Mitnick: the story of the FBI's most wanted hacker

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300

It was 1:30 a.m. on February 15, 1995. In an apartment in Raleigh, North Carolina, FBI agents broke down a door and arrested a 31-year-old man living under a false name. Kevin Mitnick — the most wanted fugitive in the United States for computer crimes — had been found. Not because of a technical slip. Because of an attack made on Christmas Day, against the wrong computer, belonging to the wrong man.

Zotob: the worm that took CNN down live 7 days after the patch

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0300

On August 16, 2005, CNN anchors and reporters were broadcasting live when the producers' computers in the studio started rebooting on their own. Blue screen. Reboot. Blue screen. Reboot. The same endless cycle repeated in loops of a few minutes, and there was nothing the technicians could do to stop it — because the machine would crash again before any manual fix could be applied. CNN was, involuntarily, covering live the very attack that was taking it down.

Mirai Botnet: the camera malware that took Twitter down in 2016

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0300

It was October 21, 2016. Millions of people tried to open Twitter early that morning and got a blank page. Reddit vanished. Netflix wouldn't load. Spotify, Airbnb, PayPal, CNN — all offline. The cause wasn't a software bug or a server failure. It was an army of refrigerators, security cameras and home routers, conscripted without their owners' knowledge, firing requests at a single target.

The malware's name was Mirai — Japanese for future. Ironically, it redefined the future of security for connected devices.