Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected
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Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected
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#2Summary: Hackers send grandmother phishing mail. Grandmother enter her email address and password. Hackers go into house of Grandmother. Hackers change settings on router and and television of grandmother.
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#3Summary: Hackers send grandmother phishing mail. Grandmother enter her email address and password. Hackers go into house of Grandmother. Hackers change settings on router and and television of grandmother.
Yeah, this isn't really that scary as long as you know how to spot phishing scams. Am disappoint.
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#4Well actually, looking at the things my parents and parents in law did on their home networks, their Smart TVs and so on, having this in a understandable form for the lay person is really good.
To understand, that your door opener, your TV and other things can be "hacked" is important. The information to use different passwords for every service is important.
We as people in the know have to help our elders and peers to see how easy it is to use a pwd-mgr and have a little bit more basic security.
If nothing more, this piece goes a step in the right direction.
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#5So cute :)
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#6Summary: Hackers send grandmother phishing mail. Grandmother enter her email address and password. Hackers go into house of Grandmother. Hackers change settings on router and and television of grandmother.
curious, is this really a bot or someone just providing a service under the guise of a bot?
be pretty cool if it was the former. that would be some serious natural language processing. (not that i know anything about that subject)
i read the article, this post does seem like a pretty accurate summary.
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#7It's easy to dismiss it as a phishing scam but these days some of them can be very convincing and elaborate. It's not hard to obscure URLs, obtain good looking SSL certs, and have a good story behind it. Social engineering will always work.
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#8Summary: Hackers send grandmother phishing mail. Grandmother enter her email address and password. Hackers go into house of Grandmother. Hackers change settings on router and and television of grandmother.
Yeah, this isn't really that scary as long as you know how to spot phishing scams. Am disappoint.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If anyone has enough privileges for a malicious attacker to use their account/info to compromise your network then that is the measure of how well protected you are. In this case it was a grandmother, but it doesn't have to be. It could be a salesperson, an HR manager, a burnt out developer. When a business grows to a sufficient size that there are people working in it who are disinterested in "computers" or "processes" (in the case of a software startup that's probably over about 10 staff), then you suddenly introduce some huge weak points in your IT infrastructure. That should be scary.
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#9"Critical points were that Mrs. Walsh needed a new garage door opener..."
I'm surprised they only care about the electronic locks and didn't show how easy it is to pick most of the mechanical locks. Especially when they are talking about the "not hyperconnected" hacks.
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#10Summary: Hackers send grandmother phishing mail. Grandmother enter her email address and password. Hackers go into house of Grandmother. Hackers change settings on router and and television of grandmother.
Yeah, I don't consider the phishing scams interesting at all. This seems like more of a marketing stunt than anything. And it's borderline not hacking.
They actually didn't even do the whole thing themselves. Instead hired a phishing service...
To me this is more similar to people dressed as UPS truck drivers going inside an apartment and stealing keys. Or a cashier taking a picture of a customer's credit card.
P.S. Excellent bot if it is a bot. It seems to be taking sides on an issue and not just summarizing, which I haven't seen happen previously with any other summary bots.