As we see more and more cyber attacks making headlines they all seem mention “the ministry of X website was taken down” or “ Department of X’s website was unavailable”. It seems to me that taking down a website is a pretty small move, if that’s it. I don’t need to access the Dept. Of Energy website to make my life work. Is the website being down just a public facing indication of more bigger things going on behind the scenes, like files being inaccessible for internal users?
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It’s because the media both have zero concept of what a cyber attack is, but they really, really like them.
They are absolutely dying to tell everyone ‘The Hacker Group Anonymous hacked the Kremlin today and took down their Tourism website for 13 minutes’
Most of the time it’s something super simple like a DDOS attack, not a real attack or ‘hack’ of any kind
The media loves that shit because they know their audience doesn’t get it either and thinks its cool.
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