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Why do exploits tend to have such ridiculously good names recently?
by Svenstaro 11y ago
Why do exploits tend to have such ridiculously good names recently?
- rdudek 11y agoThe media loves good names so they can spread their fearmongering.
- stephengillie 11y agoFirmware worm? Can we call this "Wormware"?
- LinuxBender 11y agoI saw the name "FirmWorm" used for this vuln.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- Karunamon 11y agoI wish more security vulnerabilities were fearmongered. Users caring about it and admins being bugged to fix it is a good thing.
- micampe 11y agoSecurity researchers have learned that marketing works.
- ajtaylor 11y agoFor one thing, it helps when googling for more information.
- scott_karana 11y agoHeartbleed appears to have kicked off the "good marketing" of vulnerabilities that others alluded to. :-)
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoI think they go back further than that. There's some pretty popular ones here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_and_worms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_a...