- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Sold between 1 and 100 dollars
Pretty much all of the recent “big” hacks I’ve heard of have basically come down to laziness/negligence inherited from old times: storing passwords in plaintext (like pezflash mentions), using hashes without a salt, not applying security patches to server database management systems and servers, and other lazy things of that kind.
Being lazy with security is simply a no-no these days, because so much information is kept online (everything from where’s your next meeting to your financial information to what’s your favorite pizza) that nowadays there’s 100x times more incentive to hack any network than 10 years ago when, for most developers and sysadmins, it was like “meh it’s not like we’re some online bank, right? so let’s just put some basic security here and there”.
