• scops
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    5623 days ago

    Leader: “Alright, while he’s working on breaking into their system, we’ll–”

    Hacker: “I’m in.”

    Leader: “That fast? Did you find some zero-day to exploit?”

    Hacker who just tried username “admin”, password “password”: “Yyyyeeeeeees?”

    • @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 days ago

      To this day, database hacks (top 1000 most popular passwords) and reverse hacks (a few popular passwords on a few thousand accounts) still often result in successful penetrations.

      The weakest security link is between chair and keyboard.