They’ll waste like 5 seconds scanning it and seeing it’s a malicious zip file. if they have a halfway competent it dept it’ll be scanned, flagged, and quarantined before they even have a chance to open it
As much as it’s a funny thing to say, Fox News does have some kind of minimally competent IT department. We can infer this from the fact that they weren’t buried in hack attempts a long time ago.
And stuff like this isn’t tough to handle. Any halfway competent email security toolset is going to be examining the contents of incoming compressed files. If extracting the zip file takes longer than x, toss it. If extracting reaches a size over y, toss it.
While there’s absolutely no way a zip bomb will work in anything these days, I appreciate the gesture
It will “work” in the sense that if the user will really really want to see it, they might waste lots of time learning there’s actually nothing.
They’ll waste like 5 seconds scanning it and seeing it’s a malicious zip file. if they have a halfway competent it dept it’ll be scanned, flagged, and quarantined before they even have a chance to open it
This is Fox News we’re talking about…
As much as it’s a funny thing to say, Fox News does have some kind of minimally competent IT department. We can infer this from the fact that they weren’t buried in hack attempts a long time ago.
let’s be honest. none of us know the competence if the fox news it department.
We’ll need to test to find out.
And stuff like this isn’t tough to handle. Any halfway competent email security toolset is going to be examining the contents of incoming compressed files. If extracting the zip file takes longer than x, toss it. If extracting reaches a size over y, toss it.
There’s actually not much scanners can do if you encrypt it with a password.
Yeah, just block encrypted zips
Yeah but will it filter out vids of pigs shitting on their balls?
Wasn’t there a bug in windows defender at one point where it would unpack any zip bombs on the system to “check” for viruses?