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Cybersecurity: An Invisible War Grows More Intense, More Challenging

‘The bad guy only has to be right 1 percent of the time to get through,’ said one security firm founder.
Cybersecurity: An Invisible War Grows More Intense, More Challenging
A person delivers a computer payload while working on a laptop during the 11th International Cybersecurity Forum in Lille, France, on Jan. 22, 2019. Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images
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On Nov. 3, 1988, long before most of the world would hear of dot-com and cyberspace, Eugene Spafford, an assistant professor of computer science at Purdue University, awoke to a peculiar problem: He could not log into his school computer from home.

At first, he thought that his machine just needed rebooting.

L.C. Leach III
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South-Carolina based, Leach has previously written for Greenville Business, Charleston Business, Island Vibes, Mount Pleasant Magazine, and HealthLinks Magazine. His specialty is getting to the story behind the story of the people who shape business, products, services, and concepts.