Picture all of your belongings stored away in a locked chest and you have the only key that opens the chest. The chest protects your personal belongings from others and only grants access to the owner with the key. If there are any flaws with the chest, then your belongings may be compromised to any attacker who knows the chest's weakness. This principle is an ongoing problem in the computer world. Computers store valuable data that needs to be locked away and can only be accessed by authorized users. Hackers find flaws in computer systems and in encryption algorithms in order to access data that does not belong to them. Many hackers expose systems in order to steal information and either causes damage to the victim or sells that information on the black market. This heinous crime is a serious attack on personal privacy, on classified data, or on companies that profit from that data that is stolen. Companies and consumers need to be informed of basic security protocols in order to prevent large attacks from happening through the Internet.
The thing that's hard about getting people to use security practice is that they're lazy. Picking a different password for all your accounts that can't be guessed by a brute force attack is tough and even tougher to remember.
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