News websites often feature stories about computer errors and vulnerabilities used to perpetrate sophisticated large-scale incidents like last year’s WannaCry and NotPetya attacks. But experts know that most successful hacks and cracks are the result of very basic blunders by system developers or installers.

Incorrectly configured systems are everywhere, and only a few hours separate the moment when a hacker first sniffs out such a system and its total surrender to the human intellect. Speaking at the Security Analyst Summit 2018, Israeli researcher Inbar Raz gave a host of examples confirming this sad fact.