Re:GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data pro...
by repolfx on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:07PM
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And the entrypoint when Google got hacked by the Chinese was Internet Explorer 6.
People who think defending networks is merely a matter of choosing not to get hacked have clearly never tried to do it.
- Unpatched, publicly documented vulnerabilities.
- Unauthenticated S3 buckets.
- Unencrypted laptops.
- Default passwords.
This isn't subtle crypto weaknesses or attack vectors missed in the security assessment of protocol designs. It's carelessness. It's stuff that any high school kid who's good with computers will tell you about, let alone any IT professional or software engineer.