There is a truism among security experts, IT professionals, and the like which holds that systems are generally only as secure as their weakest link or their dumbest user. Many of the worst and highest-profile hacks, intellectual property thefts, systems intrusions, and data breaches that you read about are often made possible by making people fall for one of the oldest tricks in the hacker's playbook -- convincing people to click on a link or a message that they should instead avoid like the plague.
The same extends to the security protections that we end-users put on everything from applications and software that we use, to hardware like our computers and smartphones. A good example of this, and where many people fall short maybe without even realizing it, is in the iPhone passcode they choose to lock their device with (or the Android smartphone passcode, as the case may be).
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Hackers love it when you use any of these easy-to-guess phone passcodes originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 3 Apr 2021 at 13:36:46 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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