Comment by stickynotememo
2 days ago
This is becoming a bit of an epidemic. Not every attack or exploit (and especially not a social engineering one) needs a name out of Metal Gear or a website.
2 days ago
This is becoming a bit of an epidemic. Not every attack or exploit (and especially not a social engineering one) needs a name out of Metal Gear or a website.
When Heartbleed happened and they gave it a cool name and a fancy dedicated website, it was neat and probably necessary for that bug but I immediately had a sinking feeling that from then on every 2-bit security consultant trying to get free publicity would follow that playbook for nothingburger vulnerabilities, which is exactly what happened.