One simply needed to find the spot and inflame it, until the target breached a system of beliefs for a system of information, for silent calls and dead drops.
In the winter of 1953, the sea breached a system of dikes that had been in place since the Middle Ages, causing floods that killed nearly 2,000 people.
If a criminal can breach a system in the restaurant, they also have access to the front desk, the spa and any other connected system.
In addition, combat engineers are trained to clear paths through minefields using a variety of methods from the Bangalore torpedo (a slender explosive device manually implemented into a minefield) to the Python Minefield Breaching System (a hose of explosives projected by a rocket across a minefield).
The CIA was also exploiting these attack methods — given that they're a nearly undetectable way to breach a system — but the Vault 7 release gives these tools to a large number of potentially malicious actors.
Plus, attacking digital systems has an inherent advantage: Defenders must fend off every attack to win, but hackers only need to breach a system once for a campaign to be successful.
Such is the paranoia among security agencies in Europe and North America – particularly the US transportation security administration (TSA) – that once a security measure or routine has been put in place, nobody dares to remove it for fear their decision may later be identified as the change that allowed a terrorist to breach the system.
2011: Computer breach | Hackers breached a Nasdaq system, causing concern among companies doing business with the exchange.
It was purportedly from the Guardians of Peace, a group that breached the IT system of Sony Pictures and forced the studio to scrap the planned release of The Interview, a crude comedy that derided Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator.
The cost of having a computer system breached is often much higher than the cost to secure it.
Even with no votes changed and no voting systems breached, a little doubt goes a very long way toward accomplishing the same goals as a more sophisticated hacking campaign.
