I will make my last story before time off a fun one. Quoting Bleeping Computer.
Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation music video of 1989 has officially been declared a security vulnerability as it freezes some models of hard drives on older computers.
Assigned CVE-2022-38392, the vulnerability we are talking about is a Denial of Service (DoS), specifically a side-channel attack that caused hard drives of some laptop PCs from 2005 to malfunction and crash. And it’s to do with a physical phenomenon known as resonance.
We don’t, but I couldn’t resist a fun security story among the gloom. Enjoy that one for the pure joy that it is.
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