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RUSSELL D. HOFFMAN
If you think your computer might be vulnerable to hackers…. you’re probably right.
Almost every week these days, I get an email from someone’s infected computer, asking me to open an attachment. It was a local reporter’s system last week. Maybe it will be yours next. Maybe it will be mine.
Major corporations are hacked with frightening regularity. Passwords and identities are stolen, credit card numbers are distributed. Lives are disrupted. It happens all the time.
Computer security software is notoriously difficult to install and maintain.
The #1 vulnerability?
Users who never even change the default passwords! (Usually username: admin, password: admin)
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