Whatever you do, do NOT turn off Javascript, or stop using Microsoft products like Windows, or Adobe products like their "Flash" player or even their seemingly harmless PDF viewer.
Don't be fooled into thinking these "highly sophisticated" hackers need such things in order to succeed in their "exploits".
And even if they did, the costs of NOT using Javascript, Microsoft and Adobe far, far outweight the benefits.
</sarcasm>
Nevermind the word "lethal", I've always wondered by the word "attack" was chosen within the cryptography/computer security world. Maybe someone knows the history behind it? Once you get used to this term it's seems normal. But at first it's a bit strange. Playing around with computers and binary numbers seems like the furthest thing from an "attack" one could imagine. But I guess it goes without saying that computer nerds have very vivid imaginations.
Whatever you do, do NOT turn off Javascript, or stop using Microsoft products like Windows, or Adobe products like their "Flash" player or even their seemingly harmless PDF viewer.
Don't be fooled into thinking these "highly sophisticated" hackers need such things in order to succeed in their "exploits".
And even if they did, the costs of NOT using Javascript, Microsoft and Adobe far, far outweight the benefits.
</sarcasm>
Nevermind the word "lethal", I've always wondered by the word "attack" was chosen within the cryptography/computer security world. Maybe someone knows the history behind it? Once you get used to this term it's seems normal. But at first it's a bit strange. Playing around with computers and binary numbers seems like the furthest thing from an "attack" one could imagine. But I guess it goes without saying that computer nerds have very vivid imaginations.