Digital & Computing
Learning from major cyber security incidents
...et al., 2017). Luckily, the spread of the malware was significantly slowed down by a security researcher, Marcus Hutchins, who accidentally discovered and activated the ‘kill switch’ of the malware the next day, on 13 May 2017. When inspecting the malware’s code, Hutchins noticed an unusually long internet domain name in the code. He checked and found out that the...