Re:Someone is hacking the hackers
by SavantIdiot on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:51PM
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I don't think major hacker sites getting hacked, or the MSE exploit from a few months ago qualifies as "sensationalism". These, especially the latter, are a Pretty Big Deal (tm).
What do you consider a big news item that isn't "sensationalism"? (Your link timed-out)
Re:Someone is hacking the hackers
by TheRealPomax on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:48PM
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Something can be a pretty big deal in terms of security, and get dressed up in sensationalism by news outlets to get more clicks. They're not mutually exclusive categories. But it's the "we can get clicks by reporting more of these" that most folks notice, rather than the reporting being in lockstep with the number of hacks being perpetrated every month/week/day for the last 4 years.
The more likely reason you're noticing is that thanks to covid, and the accelerated death of real news services, combined with the echo chamber effect where we're all reminding each other of how bad things are, means you're getting more exposure to sensationalism, because that echos the best. And hacks certainly qualify as sensational, especially on slow news days, where news services desperately need clicks, and "X got hacked" gets those (even if it's a report on a hack that isn't actually one, like when someone walked into a data container with tens of servers, one of which happened to be rented by a password manager).
The real wtf is what happened in 2017, though.
[1]: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/statistics?form_type=Basic&...