This is an awful analogy…
Comment on What's the real danger of opening ports?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Imagine opening all the windows in your flat. Then leaving them open for a month. What would happen? How many insects would make their new home in your home? How many critters and cats would do the same?
Now, each window is a port. Your flat is your network. Each critter or cat is a bad actor. Each insect is a bot or virus.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
To expand on this a bit:
A lot of attacks are automated since the goal is to compromise as many hosts as possible. These hosts are then used in a botnet or sold to people on shader websites to use as proxies.