August 7, 2026
In one night in 1988, a self-copying program jammed a tenth of the internet and ended the assumption that the network could be trusted. The first article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 8, 2026
Stuxnet was the first attack that reached out of a screen and broke real machines, destroying a thousand centrifuges at an air-gapped nuclear plant. Part two of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 9, 2026
Natanz was air-gapped, and Stuxnet crossed it anyway, on USB drives, stolen certificates, and four unknown flaws. Part three of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 11, 2026
Once Stuxnet escaped, the idea was free. The decade that followed brought Shamoon, the Ukraine grid attacks, and Triton. Part four of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 12, 2026
Hezbollah traded trackable phones for simple pagers to stay safe, and the pagers were the weapon. Part five of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 13, 2026
Going low-tech didn't save Hezbollah, because the devices were the attack. Why supply chain trust is a vulnerability for anyone who buys anything. Part six of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 14, 2026
More than 120 countries bought encryption machines from Crypto AG to keep secrets safe. The CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned it and read everything. Part seven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 15, 2026
A USB drive from a parking lot crossed the Pentagon's air gap in 2008 and took 14 months to remove. The cleanup created US Cyber Command. Part eight of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 16, 2026
A routine Ukrainian software update carried NotPetya, a wiper disguised as ransomware that did ten billion dollars of damage worldwide. Part nine of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 17, 2026
A poisoned SolarWinds update carried a Russian back door into 18,000 networks, including US agencies, undetected for 14 months. Part ten of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 19, 2026
Hackers stole 40 million cards from Target through the login of its heating and cooling contractor, and Target's own alarms went unanswered. Part eleven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
August 20, 2026
A fake volunteer spent two years earning trust to plant a backdoor in software running much of the internet, caught days from disaster by a half-second delay. Part twelve of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
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