{"id":21791,"date":"2023-12-09T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2023-07-26T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:24:44","slug":"the-ease-of-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/the-ease-of-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"The ease of habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make use of people&#8217;s habits when hacking a site. For example, I exploit their tendency to use easy-to-remember usernames and passwords. People often use their first or last names, maybe followed by a birthdate, and sometimes add a few numbers.<\/p>\n<p>We dislike complicated passwords because there are already so many we have to remember. I like to take advantage of these habits.<\/p>\n<h2>Another example of habits<\/h2>\n<p>When you think of a hacker, you may envision a stereotypical bad person. After all, who would want to learn how to break into someone else&#8217;s system?<\/p>\n<p>And rightfully so, there are very few who would go to the trouble of hacking just to earn a living through hard work.<\/p>\n<h2>But they exist, white hat hackers<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/white-hat-hi.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/white-hat-hi.png\" alt=\"white hat\" width=\"496\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>White hat hackers hack for the thrill, for amusement, without causing harm to a website with hacks. They approach companies and inform them about the hacks they found.<\/p>\n<p>Or they simply help someone regain access to their site if they forgot their password.<\/p>\n<p>Hacking sites can be a fun activity if you know what you&#8217;re doing. I do it for the entertainment, which is why I&#8217;ve become a guest blogger on wpbeveiligen.<\/p>\n<p>For your convenience, you can call me Hacker Anno. Hopefully, you will learn from the tricks I will describe in the coming weeks, and understand that there are also good hackers out there.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<br \/>\nAnno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make use of people&#8217;s habits when hacking a site. For example, I exploit their tendency to use easy-to-remember usernames and passwords. People often use their first or last names, maybe followed by a birthdate, and sometimes add a few numbers. We dislike complicated passwords because there are already so many we have to remember. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}