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
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children called a canon sung during the Matins and other services in Orthodoxy. It can be found in the Church of England Book of Common Prayer as the canticle called the Benedicite and is one of the traditional canticles that can follow the first scripture lesson in the Order of Morning Prayer. It is also an optional song for Matins in Lutheran liturgies, and either an abbreviated or full version of the Song is featured as the Old Testament Canticle in the Lauds liturgy for Sundays and Feasts in the Divine Office of the Catholic Church. The Prayer and accompanying Song