Data leak as pipe leak
I don’t know about you but when we have some kind of problem at our house we call somebody to take care of it. I can venture in plastering and painting walls but if there’s a pipe leaking I call the plumber. If some socket doesn’t work I call the electrician. If things go on like this I feel like everybody will soon need an IT service that you can call for security related problems much like you call the plumber when a pipe is leaky.
Adventures with Servers attacked by Botnets
I have a toy VPS on Digital Ocean. It runs the backend of a very simple prototype for a demo that I had to run almost a year ago. The backend has a signup and login system but fortunately we didn’t use any sensitive data for the demo, just fake email addresses and a bunch of data about businesses like addresses and phone numbers, all publicly available stuff. At the time we were in a rush so I set up the machine without any particular protection.