Security through obscurity is underrated

Re:Security through obscurity is underrated by naasking on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:43PM (#33319858)

Security is not choose your own buffet where you get to only think about scans but ignore other common attack vectors. Botnets are common enough that targeted attacks like I described are just as common as scans, so you always need more anyway.

Configuring your host to return 404 on invalid subdomains is just not a general solution, at best it just buys you some time until attackers find the subdomain, ie. kicking the can down the road, like I originally said.

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Re:Security through obscurity is underrated by kayson on Monday October 24, 2022 @02:17PM (#33320300)

So you're saying botnets will dictionary attack subdomains on every IP? Any sources?

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Re:Security through obscurity is underrated by naasking on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:13PM (#33322747)

No, I'm saying that's one of many behaviours. They mine domains and URLs scraped from email addresses, email headers and bodies, online content, and more. Your site is not "secure" when that security can be circumvented by someone pasting a URL into an email.

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