How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers?
jm4: I think the best advice is to take a common sense approach. Do the things you would normally do to protect against things like this and don't sweat it too much. As a startup, you're a pretty small target. I doubt you'd even register on anyone's radar.It seems like the motives for a lot of these attacks involve extortion or high profile destruction. You're basically a worthless target to anyone interested in either of these.If you've put effort into protecting yourself you're making the decision to attack even more difficult for a blackhat. If it's going to require about the same effort to attack you and some larger target, chances are they'll go for the bigger fish.