Hail Mary Cloud Hail Mary Cloud The Hail Mary Cloud was, or is, a botnet which used a statistical equivalent to brute force password guessing. The botnet ran from possibly as early as 2005, and certainly from 2008 until 2012 and possibly later. The botnet was named and documented by Peter N. M. Hansteen. The principle is that a botnet can try several thousands of more likely passwords against thousands of hosts, rather than millions of passwords against one host. Because the attack is distributed, the frequency on a given server is low, and unlikely to trigger alarms. Moreover, the attacks will come
Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church with the Virgin Mary, to magnify with her the great things the Lord has done for her, and to entrust supplications and praises to her. The earliest known Marian prayer is the Sub tuum praesidium, or "Beneath Thy Protection", a text for which was rediscovered in 1917 on a papyrus in Egypt dated to c. 250. The papyrus contains the prayer in Greek and is the earliest known reference to the title Theotokos (confirmed by the Council of Ephesus in 431): Beneath your compassion, We take refuge, O Mother of God: do not despise our petitions in time of trouble: