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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

jee.. is that easy? what's your password OP?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

hunter2, but don't tell anyone because it's a secret.

[-] milkisklim@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago
[-] Apollo98@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago
[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

RIP bash.org

EDIT: Nice, there's a bunch of mirrors.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

Weird, because all I see is hunter*

[-] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

Yup, it is. Social engineering is by far the most effective means of gaining unlawful access to any system.

Humans are always the weakest link.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Exactly. Many breaches follow this pattern:

  1. Learn the name and some basic details about the secretary or something
  2. Call corporate tech support asking for a password reset claiming to be the secretary
  3. Access important stuff since secretaries have a surprising amount of access

Replace "secretary" with some other relevant individual who has a surprising amount of access and wouldn't attract attention.

[-] limer@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

correcthorsebatterystaple

[-] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Hi, I'm Steve from corp. I need your password to verify some settings....

[-] svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

At least it wasn't due to a user input sanitization issue

[-] example@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

instead it was a user sanitization issue

this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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