You know people have been very endorsed by the IoT (Internet of Things), which are in many different forms. But i am focusing in social media particularly. Things about being existed in social media is not really wrong, but most of the people dont really realise about their safety.
well, maybe you are not really getting into what i am mentioning here "safety"? How is it really concerning? not really big deal, as long as i have password to protect everything i do. Well thats sadly a naive answer most of the times i asked people that not really knowing about cyber security crimes.
one of the information given by the professional hacker in documentary film, he said: "everything that is connected to the internet is not really safe". and of course after he showed me what he could do, which was hacking modern car system, over his cell-phone, i was "wow" myself.
Hacking can be in many forms, from script kiddie, brute force, DoS, DDos, and many more stuff like that.
and it makes me thinking, if this is the truth about technology, concerning IoT, then i am not really safe, cause i cant even read the language of the computer, how its talking and doing, so on and so forth.
one of the names about hacking is "zombie - attack", which is turning your computer into completely under control by another person out there. how? he gave us a link which is offering us about something we hardly get away from it. A fake girl number? free porn website registration? and many more. Cause he knew that we couldnt really insist of clicking something even it was useless. Virus spreading through the link and started to attack in many different sectors. Maybe you have ever seen a webcam-hacking? it is even available to learn by yourself, so how about all of these?
for me, the most important language nowadays is computer language in comparing to all of the languages. Whats the point in learning another language like another country's language? Look at the people out there spending hours to just sit themselves on the chair and coding till the next morning, they could exactly do anything they wanted. Why? Cause whatever we did, we couldnt stay away from being connected to the internet.
Here is not to mention being a criminal, but understanding how the criminal does. right now you are reading this article which is connected by wifi you have in your home, luckily it has encryption algorithm to save your ass from being hacked, 256-bit AES encryption technology;read here, the bit you have the more complicated the algorithm is, but go back to what he said earlier, "everything that is connected to the internet is not really safe". The thing is maybe it takes quite hard and a man-like GeoHot, who possible could have done this, but somebody could, right?
people makes mistakes, but we gotta learn from them so that we dont get trapped to the same hole. But how could we even understand it? Cause we dont even know how to read it? So from this moment on, try to realise that what you really do is not about getting comments and likes from your friends over facebook page, cause you updated status having dinner with friends, and you turn on your location services [new york], so you could get their reactions? whats the point man? knock it off, and try to open your eyes wider than ever before.
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to Gray: since you mentioning yourself that you have been learning computer security, you have to know types of hacking out there. But trust me, with 256 bit AES encryption system, it does make hacker feels irritated, but it doesnt really say that you are okay with that.
i did some cracking using metasploit, it took commonly 5 hours within 8-16 char combination, and it was for rookies. But what's interesting here is, if you realise about security and all, this a shortcut of being needed by most of people and even jobs out there, cause hacking is never nearly enough. somebody out there been spending days to hack somebody's website as his mini project, but for most advanced country maybe it is considerably risky, for the hacker himself there is not a single mistake allowed unless it would be traceable. i agree with you about WPA and WPA2 wireless technology, cause it gives us more to encryption and security, but still, just need a little more knowledge of codes, everything is not really a challenge to pass. I wish i could hear from you many more security topics, and also i hope you are using linux distro in your laptop.
to all of people: i hope this information at least open your eyes a little bit wider, not to mention this is all of it, but the worse could happen without us knowing it. last semester i got a lecturer who was attacked by a hacker, considered it as zombie attack, he couldnt do much, cause someone penetrated his computer and took control of the computer. To do that needed thinking and practice but it would worth it for them, cause they could at least get fun of it, or make ransom out of it.
Just watch MR.Robot series, there is nothing better to watch than that lately.
enjoy.
Hacking is really dangerous thing. now our all work based on computers, everyone kept all sort of data in his/her PC. official data,.. even deleted data can be recover from PC,USB,hard disk.. nothing in PC(connected to network) is not safe.. but this problem have no solution except to be care in saving data in this devices.
thanks for sharing informative blog with us.. keep writing.