Internet Security--A Plan of Attack

"If your user name is 'user name' and your password is 'password,' that's pretty easy to guess," he laughs.

Compromising Positions
A different form of attack is called Web page modification. If a hacker can learn the passwords that are used to upload pages to a company's Website, he or she can upload their own Web page, displaying whatever message they choose, or rerouting the user to another site.