How are bike thieves like hackers? Both look for the same kinds of vulnerabilities, including easy-to-crack passwords. Would you leave your bike's combination at the default of 0000? Of course not. In the same way, you should change default passwords and use something that a hacker won't find easy to crack. Be safe out there!
When Daniel Rigmaiden was caught committing tax fraud, little did we know that he would expose an infringement on Fourth Amendment rights and even cause the surveillance laws to change.
In 2017, consumer reporting agency Equifax was breached, and the credit records of more than 140 million consumers—more than half the adults in the United States at the time—were extracted