News Corp feared DDoS attacks over content alteration during 2016 election
Dominic Schein · a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:47
Dominic Shine, CIO of News Corp, responds to host Ben Horowitz's question about whether foreign hackers posed a risk to news integrity during the 2016 US presidential election.
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“So I think we're always vigilant to that sort of risk. I think our concerns were more that we might have a repeat of the denial of service attacks of the previous weeks. We might have disruption, but we have a lot of safeguards around protecting those crown jewels, those assets.”
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