How Hackers Get You and How to Protect Yourself

In this video, I go over the 7 common ways hackers get you online and how to protect yourself.

-Social Engineering / Phishing - Verify Websites
-Keylogger/Viruses - Scan your PC for malware
-Session Hijacking - Always use SSL to prevent Cookie Theft
-DNS Hijacking / DNSSEC - Local / Router / DNS Server
:::Note: Make sure to use a good DNS Server:::

[Sierra]

A hoodie, but no sunglasses? _You aren't a real haxxor!_

[TheRosswise]

You need to mention Social Engineering. Be careful what details of your personal information you tell others. Be careful who you friend on Facebook and Twitter.

[papabones]

Seriously, social engineering is probably the most dangerous one, the one you're gonna be most vulnerable to as a normal user.

[mgsd]

"Not sponsored" *sad_face*
Man i wish you would get good sponsorship. You totally deserve it!

[teddraper]

How do we know this video wasn't hacked by a very good Chris Titus impersonator?? And the postman is looking sketchy too 😂. All kidding aside, good stuff Chris! Thanks!

[sendgl]

Re keyloggers; I tend to enter sensitive data in a different order to normal, mouse click to move to middle of asterisks, highlight asterisks to over write.

[mrcrackerist]

its somewhat funny to get a email from apple,
saying that i have a unpaid iTunes or something like that.
I have never used anything from apple nor will I.

[dscple]

By the definition you gave for a Virus, wouldn't Windows 10 be in that category? lol.

[aitchpea]

Linux, while much more secure than Windows, is far from immune to those of malicious intent, especially if those people are targeting you specifically. I have had both my Linux computer and my Android devices attacked in ways that gave me no clue that anything bad was happening. These people were able to see all my activity on the devices when connected to the internet. SSL was hijacked, keystrokes were logged and screens were recorded, and I had no idea. When other, non-computery things started happening, I became suspicious that I was being targeted and installed clamAV on my computer, and kaspersky and another program (I forget the name) on my other devices. Neither clam nor kaspersky would update their virus databases, and the other program informed me that all SSL connections were hijacked. I downloaded and installed a fresh distro on my computer and factory reset my phone and tablet, but even then the security software acted in exactly the same way; I was still infected. The only fix was to ask a friend to make me a live boot USB stick and also put on it the tools and ROM images required to root and completely wipe the android devices and install lineage OS on them both. After reinstalling my computer's OS from the clean live image and doing as previously described to the phone and tablet, the aforementioned security software now updates as it should and reports no issues. Don't be complacent, device users, install security tools, whatever your OS, and make sure they're kept up to date and performing regular checks on all your hardware.

[peterjansen]

In my experience Hotmail has a pretty good spam-protection. Sometimes you have a false positive but mostly they do it correct. I have a laptop on which I mostly use wireless internet, I don't even log in on my main e-mail account which Steam is tied to. Too dangerous in my opinion. Keyloggers are my biggest fear with wired internet. Stay signed in and the browser stores your passwored unencrypted (ridiculous!). Enter your password every time again and a keylogger might get your password.

Somebody else had already mentioned it, the biggest vulnerability might be social engineering. Humans are the weakest link in most security chains.

[JamesWilson-pqqp]

Great video, everyone gets phising and spam - Google E-mail does a good job of sorting them out. Encryption is the on thing that really scares me, it makes me "Wannacry!"

[davemckewan]

The one I just got is the email that claims they have a password, a keylogger installed, threats of putting your face on videos and posting them and you need give them money to stop that. Using the link provided... All systems scanned and cleaned. Some pwds changed and keypass being deployed. Sigh, I wish we could find these people...

[cillin]

recommend a dedicated hardware firewall for home?

[funnnnnyman]

Linux jedi. good video!.
thank you for all your good work.
and.
May the Linux force be with you!

[ronaldvandijk]

Thanks for your great videos! What kinda ethical hacking course would you suggest for a beginner? Just from the internet? Some kinda course?

[GavinFreeborn]

you should do a video on jack Id love to learn about it

[greenbeginner]

05:02 How do I go about being “very careful “ so as to protect myself? What should I look out for?

[bobgrimes]

Thank God I still run OS/2 and MX Linux on my Thinkpads!

[Simbathecat]

Hi Chris im really learning a lot from your videos, I wanted to know if i downloaded a microsoft office 2019 and its from a website and its running good and installated for lifetime. Should I removed it?

[mrmasterofdiabloplay]

There is one exploit that keyloggers can use in a Linux based system, and that is WINE. WINE will allow a windows based keylogger (or any Trojan or malware designed for windows) to run on your system. Normally this only happens if you are downloading windows programs from strange sources on the internet so the way to protect yourself is only download stuff from trusted sources (such as your gaming services). Didn't you download a virus with DMC5 patch????


P.S. don't use a windows based browser in Linux either, because that just asking for trouble as well!