The species Homo sapiens supports a wide range of intellectual capabilities such as speech, emotion, rational thinking etc. Many of these components are enabled by default - though to differing degrees of success. These components are implemented by the cerebral cortex, and are under the control of the identity engine which runs as me.exe. Vulnerabilities in these components are the most common avenues for exploitation.
The human brain is both locally and remotely exploitable through techniques such as unhealthy self-talk, low self-esteem, government propaganda, commercial marketing, sales representatives, phishing, social engineering, and magic tricks. For most of these vulnerabilities, exploit code is publicly available. Attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities have been seen in the wild. An example of a large-scale attack involved exploiting a flaw in the brain's music handling routine where thousands of people purchased David Hasselhof's album “Looking for the Best.”
Earlier versions especially Neanderthal and Homo Erectus do not enable rationality and intellect by default and are therefore considered “secure by default” (of course, extinction dramatically reduces a species' attackable surface area). Due to environmentally-derived improvements, Homo sapiens have a much broader mental capacity which increases the exploitable surface area significantly.
All versions after Homo sapiens 1.3.27.5234a
Unfortunately, patches to Homo sapiens have resulted in significant and harmful sequela such as holy wars, cola wars, communism, reality TV, and global warming; therefore, the current version of Homo sapiens is considered unstable and non-patchable. An upgrade/replacement from the open-source genomics community is eagerly awaited. In the mean time, consider the following: