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Just saw that security researcher Dan Kaminsky died on Friday. A great loss for the online world and the white hat community. https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/25/dan_kaminsky_obituary/
Kaminsky’s family issued a statement + his niece shared some details to counter unfortunate conspiracy theories. He had struggled with diabetes, had been hospitalized from it—and died from complications of the disease. https://twitter.com/sarahbrie/status/1386384261133922310
One of the Internet vulnerabilities Kaminsky discovered, this one from 2008: https://www.wired.com/2008/04/isps-error-page/
In 2006, Kaminsky found Sony CDs secretly & automatically installed DRM, a significant security risk which could be exploited by Trojan horses.
“[He] reported that around 560,000 name servers had ‘witnessed DNS queries related to the rootkit...’” https://www.zdnet.com/article/sony-rootkit-victims-in-every-us-state/
“[He] reported that around 560,000 name servers had ‘witnessed DNS queries related to the rootkit...’” https://www.zdnet.com/article/sony-rootkit-victims-in-every-us-state/
