Community frames incident as part of broader security inflection point
2 Oct 30 6:55 PM · 12d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 5
Infrastructure professionals began contextualizing the Linode incident within a larger pattern of recent attacks, with commenters characterizing the moment as a potential turning point in threat landscape escalation.
“It feels like we hit an inflection point in the last week or so. Kind of a large tidal wave to crash on the coast, but likely not the tsunami yet.”
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It feels like we hit an inflection point in the last week or so. Kind of a large tidal wave to crash on the coast, but likely not the tsunami yet. I hope.If you are running services and don't yet have an easy way to react to these things with swift process defined, I hope you don't like to sleep.
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Wow, that isn't clear. Is there an incident, or did they just become aware about MPTCP vuln? Details on the mptcp are also pretty scarce as well right?
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@dang I would encourage you to really think about having security incident as a new HN tag. The wording can be better though.
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