Welcome to HakProof.com. This site is my attempt to reach out beyond the physical classroom to the community at large to help each of you increase your personal SQ or Security Quotient. Today was my seventh visit to WHTC 1450 AM radio station in Holland Michigan to be a guest on the daily show, Talk of the Town.
Click on Link to access the Podcast, of my time on today’s show:
Hackers vs. Yahoo
Over a billion user accounts in August of 2013.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-hack.html
- Time to change email accounts!
- Change your password and security questions not only on Yahoo but other accounts that you may have used the same information.
- Do not delete your abandoned yahoo account unless you want someone else getting a hold of it to cause mischief.
- Create autoresponder email message to guide people to your new email address when they send something to the old account. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4qKFgD59E)
“Popcorn Time” Ransomware
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-scheme-spread-popcorn-time-ransomware-get-chance-of-free-decryption-key/
- When a victim’s machine is infected they have a choice:
- Either pay one bitcoin — currently ~$780 —
- -OR- successfully infect two other people, who then pay up, by arranging to cause them to invoke the specially tagged “credit link” provided.
- Avoid clicking on links in email unless you are sure where they go.
- Maintain good backups of data and keep them away from your machine when the backup is not running.
Personal Security at community events
Assume there is someone watching you at all times at these events. They are waiting to take advantage of the moment and take what does not belong to them. They are stealthy, and you may never know what happened. I was lucky that the thief was caught on video taking my bag with my laptop in it, the perps picture is now circulating, but there is only a very little chance I will see the contents of that bag again.