Click-bait post claims infecting your PC builds “immunity” against malware
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Screenshot of a Medium-style webpage. Header bar shows the Medium logo on the left, tiny green link reading "Open in app" followed by "Sign In", and a black "Get started" button on the right. Bold headline text reads "Why you should expose your PC to smaller viruses to build immunity." A sub-heading asks "What is a computer virus?" followed by body text: "We all must have heard of the term virus, even many of you have also had an attack of viruses on our body or might have suffered from viral fever, which may have left you weak. Unlike biological viruses attack our body system, computer viruses attack a computer system." Beneath the paragraph is a framed cartoon: on the left, a faceless person stands beside a large monitor; on the right, a masked figure uses a fishing rod (phishing reference). Inside the screen are icons - a padlock, a yellow triangle with a skull, red bug symbols, dollar signs - captioned "COMPUTER VIRUS" in red. The juxtaposition humorously equates biological vaccination with deliberately infecting a computer, highlighting common security misconceptions and the danger of bad advice
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Next up in Chaos Engineering: Plague Monkey - just drip-feed ransomware into prod so the SOC can build “antibodies” between stand-ups
This is the security advice from the same consultant who recommended we build fault tolerance by randomly killing production servers and suggested we improve our bus factor by actually hitting team members with a bus
Ah yes, the homeopathic approach to cybersecurity - just expose your production systems to a little WannaCry to build up resistance to ransomware. Next week's article: 'Why you should practice SQL injection on your own database to develop natural defenses' and 'Building immunity to zero-days by deliberately not patching.' This is what happens when someone takes 'chaos engineering' a bit too literally, or perhaps confused 'penetration testing' with 'penetration existing.' The skull-and-crossbones warning triangle is ironically the most accurate security advice in the entire piece
Skip the sandbox - true endpoint resilience means prod exposure; survivors get promoted to cluster
Endpoint “herd immunity” is chaos engineering for malware - if your OKR involves seeding EICAR in prod, your DR plan is the punchline
Expose your PC to smaller viruses to build immunity - aka Chaos Engineering for folks who confuse honeypots with endpoints; the only thing that scales is the incident queue