HACKING #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin I was literally

in the middle of working on a video on

hacking when my credit card got hacked

so I think this is a great time to talk

a little bit about cybersecurity and a

huge shout out to LastPass for

sponsoring this video great timing guys

so I've been keeping all of my

information safe and last past four

years way before they ever reached out

wanted to sponsor a video I think like a

lot of people I used to use a couple of

passwords across all of my sites whether

that would be for Twitter or for my bank

account

however with LastPass you can easily

create completely custom and random

passwords for each and every individual

site and keep them all locked up behind

a single password and LastPass vaults so

even if one site gets hacked none of the

rest of your logins are going to be

vulnerable and that's available on the

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which I've had for like four years now

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tablet computer whatever so the LastPass

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every single day so if you guys want to

give it a try and help support the

channel the link to check it out will be

in the description of this video when it

comes to getting hacked through a lot of

ways that it can happen so maybe it's

something simple like you open a

phishing email attachment you're

visiting a site that you probably

shouldn't be looking at recently though

these hacks have become much much more

ambitious so take for example Equifax

this is a credit agency that recently

had 143 million people's information

leaked and this isn't like small stuff

like your phone number or address this

is like really important information

like your social security number which

makes it very very easy for identity

theft to happen growing fallout this

morning over its massive data breach the

biggest and most significant yeah

possibly putting 143 million American

every back in March a major

vulnerability was found in Equifax is

back-end and it wasn't fixed until the

end of July meaning that for months

about one-third of the u.s. populations

information was wide open for the taking

this is hardly an isolated incident so

only a few weeks after the Equifax

hacked ccleaner had their own issues

so ccleaner is a very popular utility to

allow you to clean your computer however

for a short time the legitimate version

was replaced that you downloaded from

their site with a version that was

loaded with malware the scary part of

this is is that there was actually no

real way of telling that what you were

downloading was actually

now we're and not the proper program

you're going to the official site you're

downloading it installing it everything

looks completely legit and the program

even worked however in the background

was a serious virus so the popular DVD

ripping tool handbrake had a very

similar thing happen for period of four

days the legitimate download was

replaced with a version that had a Mac

specific version of malware inside of it

even worse is that hacks are no longer

confined to just software they're

hitting close to home literally with

products like Amazon echo and Google

home being brought into more and more

households these companies are getting

closer and closer to our personal lives

than ever before now this can be a good

thing so it's nice to be able to walk

into your house until Alexa to turn the

lights on maybe if you forget to lock

your door when you leave you can just do

it straight from your phone with a smart

lock and stuff like net security cameras

will give you a much better sense of

security when you can see exactly what's

going on inside your house but like all

good things in life it doesn't exactly

work all the time and like a lot of

people fear when stuff like the Amazon

echo first came out there is a way to

now hack this if you peel back the

little rubber pad on the bottom of an

Amazon echo you'll see a series of

contacts so using these if you have a

little bit of technical knowledge in

about 10 minutes you can actually turn

in Amazon echo into a listening device

the upside is as long as you don't have

a super nerd as an enemy this is not an

easy hike to pull off Emily do you need

that technical knowledge but you also

need to have actual access to the echo

in hand and to Amazon's credit they

actually have removed this vulnerability

from the most recent model the real

issue here is when there's an echo in a

public place so take for example the

Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas they have an

echo at every single room and all it

takes is for someone to hack at once and

they can listen in to the conversations

in that room pretty much forever all

right so what can you actually do about

this well the first thing to understand

is that there's no way of keeping you

and your data completely safe if you

apply for a credit card five years ago

and the creative agency gets hacked too

bad

I'm probably never going to know how my

credit card got compromised it could

have been something simple like being

skinned at an ATM or gas station or

maybe some site that I use the card on

was hacked and I just didn't know it but

there are some things you can do to help

protect yourself the easiest thing is to

just check your credit so if you live in

the US federal law guarantees that you

can get one free credit report from each

of the three major agencies per years on

the digital front it makes sense to have

some kind of antivirus and keep your

devices up to date so that it includes

those Windows updates that you've been

saying

to for the last six months keep your

browser up-to-date your phone all these

things are constantly getting security

updates and they can really save you

when these things come up throats like

this are never going to go away biz long

as you're smart and keep an eye on

things then you should be fine so have

you actually ever gotten hacked yourself

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you in the next one