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How hackers break in: the most common attacks on people, websites and apps

Who would bother to hack a small website? In 2021, researchers put 320 servers online. The servers had easy passwords, and nobody knew about them. Within one day, attack programs broke into 80% of them. Here you see how the cyber attacks in the news really get in, with one short comic for each: social engineering, malware, unpatched software, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), ransomware, DDoS attacks and supply chain attacks. At the end, you can spot each one when it happens to you.