Pope Zerologon I

Encyclical

"Clavis Ex Nihilo". Tom Tervoort of Secura found that in Netlogon an initialisation vector made of zeros was enough, one time in 256, to be accepted by a domain controller and become domain admin in seconds. CISA issued an emergency directive and ransomware gangs adopted it at once. The year taught that cryptography wrong in the details is worse than none, because it looks safe.

Saint page: Saint Zerologon, Who Showed Up With Only Zeros

Cardinals

Saint SIGRed, Worm That Slept Seventeen Years in DNS · Saint Ghostcat, the Phantom Cat of Tomcat