PNPhuoc Nguyen Danginstoryengine.hashnode.dev·Apr 3 · 2 min readDead Code Destroyed a $1.5B Company in 45 Minutes — Knight CapitalOn August 1, 2012, Knight Capital lost $440 million in 45 minutes. Not from a hack. From a deployment error. Dead code from 2003 woke up because one server out of eight missed an update. The deployment script failed silently and reported success. Fou...00
PNPhuoc Nguyen Danginstoryengine.hashnode.dev·Apr 3 · 1 min read11 Lines of Code Broke the Entire InternetIn 2016, one developer deleted 11 lines of JavaScript. Facebook, Netflix, and thousands of companies broke instantly. But here's the part most people miss. npm's CEO personally provided the developer with the script to delete everything. The platform...00
PNPhuoc Nguyen Danginstoryengine.hashnode.dev·Apr 3 · 1 min readThe Spy Who Coded For Two Years — The XZ BackdoorA state intelligence operation spent two years building trust in an open-source project. Making real contributions. Being helpful. Then they planted a backdoor to every Linux server on the internet. It was caught because one engineer noticed SSH was ...00
PNPhuoc Nguyen Danginstoryengine.hashnode.dev·Apr 3 · 1 min readOne File Satisfies 8.5 Million — The CrowdStrike DisasterOn July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike pushed a routine config file update to 8.5 million Windows machines. The file had 21 data fields. The parser expected 20. No bounds check. No integration test. Result: the largest IT outage in history. $5.4 billion in Fo...00
