Forget VPNfilter – here’s BACKLASH, a networking hack from way, way back

A really interesting read going back to the very first cyberattack in the 1830's!!!!

 
31 May 2018  by Paul Ducklin
 
Do you remember the infamous Morris worm that paralysed the internet back in 1988, or the Christmas Tree worm that hit IBM mainframes in December 1987?
 
Well, BACKLASH goes back further than both of those – all the way back, indeed, to the 1830s, so it predates even electrical telecommunications, let alone the era of electronics.
 
Until the first commercial installation of an electrical telegraph by Englishmen William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone in the late 1830s, telegraphy – short for “distant writing” – relied on optical signalling devices.
 
Full Article.