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Imagine the real-world equivalent: someone spreads a rumor that the Fifth Avenue Apple store is giving away free iPhones at 6pm. Ten thousand people turn up and
by jl6 5y ago
Imagine the real-world equivalent: someone spreads a rumor that the Fifth Avenue Apple store is giving away free iPhones at 6pm. Ten thousand people turn up and block the store, the sidewalk, the roads…
How should a business defend against that without losing legitimate customers?
The answer is probably along the lines of “educate people not to believe rumors” (:: “educate people not to run insecure software”).
- smoldesu 5y agoHow does secure software protect you from acknowledging perfectly innocuous requests?
- jl6 5y agoIt’s the zombie-botnet-machine owners who need to be running more secure software, not the botnet victims.
- sumedh 5y ago> (:: “educate people not to run insecure software”). Some of these exploits uses zero day attacks, the users cannot do anything.