Jeff Atwood • 9/21/2018

There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

The article uses the infamous 2016 political campaign phishing email as a case study to argue that 'computer security' as a purely technical concept is obsolete. It details how a single typo in an IT response ('legitimate' vs. 'illegitimate') led to a catastrophic breach, demonstrating that human factors and procedural failures are now the critical vulnerabilities, even against unsophisticated attacks.

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