So when it comes to that, your phone, verify first. They'll impersonate different organizations to try to get your personal information and use that to be able to make fraudulent charges. Look at the number on the website themselves and call it back cause a lot of times attackers will impersonate financial services. So whenever you get a call, that's too good to be true, or a call that is a fraud services line, call them back.
A person is not going to call you on the phone from a banking service and ask you for that type of information. Things like social security numbers, your credit card numbers. That's one of the biggest things that attackers can leverage to get access to your data. So those are things that attackers can leverage as urgency, how you actually operate, and all that information that you post online are things that we can use as attacks.Īnd last but not least, personal information. Well, if I, as an attacker, know an Amazon package is getting delivered, sending a text message from a Verizon customer support service line coming from Amazon saying hey your package is being rerouted, you need to log into the site to get it delivered again, is something that an attacker can use. So let's just say for example, I'm a Verizon customer and I have an Amazon package that's getting delivered. Something that you're familiar with, but you have to take action upon. One of the main things that we do as hackers, especially when it comes to social engineering, is we create a sense of urgency. We can use that as a method to attack you. Those are all things that we can use to identify when you're gonna be out of the country or when you're gonna be at a business meeting. Look at what you do, your spending habits, what you might be doing from a day-to-day perspective, going and buying Starbucks at a certain location. Number four, social media, be careful with how much information you actually put online. If you're using Java, Adobe, PDFs, Office documents, those are all things that you want to keep up to date and that makes it much harder for us as hackers to break in to your system. That's the most important thing, always keep up to date with what you're having out there.
So keep up to date whether you're using a Mac, they aren't impervious to attack, or you're using Windows, same thing, update your systems.
Every time you have a Windows update that says hey I need to update your computer, it's usually to fix a known attack that hackers have figured out to get access to your computer. Number three, make sure that you stay up to date.
So if you have the same Twitter password as your same banking information, those are things that can get you in some serious trouble. I know it's hard, but using the same password everywhere is one of probably the easiest ways that we break in as hackers. Number two, don't use the same password everywhere. And that's really important by enabling that specific security step, probably number one. And why that's important is because if a hacker gets access to your password, they still have to have access to your phone to get access to your account. You can enable it and every time that you log in, it'll register your computer, and you can then get a text message to go into that system as a second form of verification.
Your banking systems, Twitter, Facebook all support the ability for you to enable an additional security feature that you may not know.
Number one, use two-factor authentication or two-step verification everywhere that you can. So what's the top five things that you can do to make yourself more secure both at your business and your home? From being able to hack Smartphones to getting access to a big corporation and being able to bring them to their knees from a cyber perspective.
If you're interested in hacking and don't understand a lot of this, the TV show itself actually employs hackers to work on the show to depict real-life hacks that could happen in real life and it's a very very accurate portrayal of everything that we see in today. Robot" is probably one of the most accurate portrayals of what hackers can actively do.