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Obvious cybersecurity rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

I mean, technically, that is a zero-day exploit