Hacking challenge at DEFCON

Watch what happens when journalist Kevin Roose challenges hackers to hack him.

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[razu]

"I can make you homeless",
This line took the reporter to an another level of misery.. 😂

[yuvadeep]

The biggest threat is not the security of technologies, its the people.

[dandeeteeyem]

Best live demo of social engineering ever... Girl has skills 😍

[allancohen]

I have to admit that when my dad passed away years ago (and so does POA at that time) all honest attempts to get access to accounts to get my mom all setup almost all failed. I quickly learned to, "Be my dad". and I was able to gain access to almost all accounts so my mom had as smooth a transition to being the account(s) holder as possible.

[diwakardayal]

Imagine Using the Cry baby sound all of the sudden, an Ad starts to play 😂

[rvxn]

Netflix wants to know that woman's location

that vissing woman is goood... i mean her skills.

[anees_ahmad_pazhayidath]

😂 Imagine this guys wife being the support staff that answers the call.

[BharathRamMS]

I watched this video 'coz it wouldn't go off my recommended list. It was totally worth watching. A wake-up call to every one of us.

[Smidday]

I’ve worked in a lot of call centres and you’re always told you can’t speak to someone not named on the account no matter what, this person will probably lose there job

[troys]

This guy is in such a risk, like imagine if one of them betrays him...

[SeekerofTruth]

In my opinion what women did only works with a very bad provider, good tech support never break protocol even if your crying children is dying.

[googleyoutubechannel]

So not only did Kevin Roose, a long time tech-writer, click on a phishing email link that came from some random url different than the one it claimed to, he used an insecure browser that had an active exploit serious enough that it allowed arbitrary fake login prompts to appear in the future. Kevin then ALSO never noticed the fake login prompts even once and filled in his credentials into the fake prompts repeatedly? Kevin also somehow does not have 2FA set up on his lastpass account (which is impossible)?!
OR, or... just possibly this is BS made up for the video of a worst case scenario, the kind your grandma would get into.

[winskykusuma]

0:08 Listen...







YEEEHAAAWWW!!

[EliteTruckRepairs]

Moral to the story is don't click emails you aren't expecting, and never use SMS backups. Just a couple ways to medigate predators.

[iamajmalhassan]

This is what my neighbours think of me when I say that I'm a software engineer.

[BAMsPG]

In other words Phishing is Social Engineering shortened down.

[malcolmmutambanengwe]

Somewhere out there, there is a struggling mother with a crying baby, who right now disliked this video. LOL

[farhan]

Me: Clicks on a link in a mail
Hacker: NO YOOOUUU gave me your passwords 😂😂😂

[midimusicforever]

A human being is a multitude of unfixable 0-day exploits.