Apple and Starbucks could have avoided being hacked if they'd taken this simple step

Apple and Starbucks are two of the world's most trusted companies, but they both recently fell victim to security hacks. Both set up systems that appear to have allowed hackers to break into customers' accounts by repeatedly trying different passwords, a procedure commonly known as a "brute-force" attack. It has been reported that neither firm employed the simple tactic of automatically locking accounts after several failed attempts to enter a password.

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