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Availability. The third portion of the cyber security triad. Confidentiality, integrity, availability.

If you cannot get to your stuff, or you stuff is harder to get to, then there has been a form of compromise in your service. Is it sexy like wannacry or technically advanced? No. But like most things IT, most of the time it is not.

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As stated, technically correct. But availability of a relatively non-critical service being compromised is an entirely different story than integrity of their software being compromised. One is a no-op, the other is a potential all-hands-on-deck situation for anyone using the software.

The headline allows for both possibilities. See the example I posted in a sibling post: A headline of "terrorists strike railway station" would make most people imagine a bloodbath with dozens dead, while still being accurate if all that happened was that some ecoanarchists set a trash can on fire and forced an evacuation.

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