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This is a myth: "Just be smart and you are safe from malware"
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<blockquote data-quote="Zero Knowledge" data-source="post: 1014416" data-attributes="member: 57429"><p>The problem these days is that the attackers are well-funded, well-resourced and very professional. Back in the day all you had to worry about the hacker in his basement (Kevin Mitnick) and they were driven by curiosity, adventure and getting a few laughs. Not sure if you are old enough but the internet back in the early/mid/late nineties was a very different landscape which has now evolved into some unrecognizable monster.</p><p></p><p>There now so many people out there in the industry writing and deploying exploits that it's basically game over. It's no longer the realm of criminals and black hats or security nerds and white hat hackers. Now it's professional hackers (white and black), nation states with hacking crews and surveillance capabilities, criminal groups and hacking tool sellers, and then there are hacking for hire and exploit development and buying companies. </p><p></p><p>It's the most dangerous time I've seen in 30 years, every app you download, website you visit, security update you download, or every OS update you have to think "Did I just get owned?". I'm not sure even a layered security approach helps these days, it feels like we have lost the battle and the war.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure how it ends but it doesn't look positive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zero Knowledge, post: 1014416, member: 57429"] The problem these days is that the attackers are well-funded, well-resourced and very professional. Back in the day all you had to worry about the hacker in his basement (Kevin Mitnick) and they were driven by curiosity, adventure and getting a few laughs. Not sure if you are old enough but the internet back in the early/mid/late nineties was a very different landscape which has now evolved into some unrecognizable monster. There now so many people out there in the industry writing and deploying exploits that it's basically game over. It's no longer the realm of criminals and black hats or security nerds and white hat hackers. Now it's professional hackers (white and black), nation states with hacking crews and surveillance capabilities, criminal groups and hacking tool sellers, and then there are hacking for hire and exploit development and buying companies. It's the most dangerous time I've seen in 30 years, every app you download, website you visit, security update you download, or every OS update you have to think "Did I just get owned?". I'm not sure even a layered security approach helps these days, it feels like we have lost the battle and the war. I'm not sure how it ends but it doesn't look positive. [/QUOTE]
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