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In this video, we're going to go over the common methods of hacking, so what are some of the most

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common methods that hackers are going to be using to take over information to gain access to networks?

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What are the different techniques that they use and essentially how they work so that you can become

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aware as to what you're going to be going up against, essentially.

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So let's go right ahead and jump in here.

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Some of the common methods of hacking here we have as a virus or Trojan, and this is essentially a

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virus within something that you download or install.

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I don't know if you've ever gone to any type of website that you perhaps had some kind of add on there

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or had, let's say, like on Yahoo!

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Dot com, they have a lot of those different ads within the actual news section and you click on them

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and a lot of them say, like, hey, you've won ten thousand dollars or you've won a prize or whatever.

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That may be.

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A lot of times if you click on those, they're actually unfortunately have some sort of malware or virus

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on there.

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And when you click it, you run the risk of actually clicking on there.

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And then it takes you to another screen and it says, hey, your system has been infected.

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You need to download this software, you need to buy X, Y, Z software, or else your system will be

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compromised, whatever.

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It's essentially where you have a virus type of company out there that is telling you that you have

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been compromised and you need to pay this money to download the software to actually take off the virus.

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But in reality, all they're trying to do is take your money and then phishing here.

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This is where websites are replicated to enter login information and password.

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Right.

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This is where information is actually gained to be able to take away access to different websites,

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different login areas.

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And then the next one here is eavesdropping.

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This is where a lot of times, you know, a lot of people think about the government and, you know,

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what they're supposedly are doing, I don't know.

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Right.

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I don't have the actual information precisely.

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But a lot of people say or think that they are being watched by Big Brother or whatever.

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That may be wrong.

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But there's a lot of hackers out there that are actually, you know, have the ability to monitor you

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without you knowing through video, audio, whatever that may be, through your specific device.

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And then fake WAPT, this is where you have fake wi fi and essentially get you to sign up to a network

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and get access to your data because it looks like you're signing on to a network.

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But in reality, it's a fake network, they're fake wi fi.

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And once you sign up, they're getting access to your data and then we have water hole attacks.

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And so this is more on location specific.

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And then we have the denial of service.

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This is where we're flooding traffic to crash a specific site.

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Let's say that you have like a WordPress website and for most WordPress websites, they have like the

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actual website dotcom, and then they have forgood WP and then Dash or Hyphen Admon.

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Right, WPE hyphen admin.

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And any time you go to the euro for that particular website that's hosted with WordPress, you're going

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to get to a login portal, right.

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Login page.

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And so what people can do is flood a bunch of traffic to crash your site so that you cannot get access

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to your website and actually log in.

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And then we have the key logger here.

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This is malware that tracks your keypad.

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What they can do with this is essentially install it and be able to track what you're pressing on your

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actual phone or your computer, your device.

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And let's say for if you're logging into a website, they can track what actual keypad numbers you're

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using, which, you know, letters.

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And so they can use that to gain privately secured information and then social engineering.

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And this is the psychological manipulation of people into performing various acts or divulging confidential

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information.

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Now, a good example of this one here is just think about when or if you've received a text message

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from somebody saying, hey, free ticket to a vacation or whatever, that may be.

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Right.

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You get a random text out of nowhere saying you've won a prize, you've won something.

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And then in return, they ask you, hey, all you need to do is give us your name, email and birthdate

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or whatever.

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Right.

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And then those individual hackers now have access to your information and they can use that to gain

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access to your phone, to your devices.

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Right.

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And so this is used a lot of times where people are just they're not.

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Thinking that people who are out there that are malicious and have malicious intent, unfortunately,

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that's where a lot of people get taken advantage of because they don't really think the worst or they

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think that it's just somebody, you know, reaching out to them that is actually letting them know that

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they've won something.

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Right.

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So this is a big factor here.

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This is how a lot of people get taken advantage of.

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And one of the biggest problems we have with malicious intent and hackers with this here, the social

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engineering taking advantage of people's natural inclination to be curious.

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And another simple example of this is if you're getting phone calls from like a government or a business,

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them acting like they're actually the government or a business when they're really not trying to get

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access to your information and then bait and switch, this is where you have fake ads that take you

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to a page with the virus, just like I was mentioning earlier as well, where, you know, you have

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some sort of Web page that you visit and it has an ad on there and it says you've won a trip to whatever

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or you've won a gift card for a thousand dollars or whatever, and then you click on it and boom, you

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go to a page that has some sort of virus on there, unfortunately.

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And then you have cookie theft here.

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This is where hackers will take cookies off your computer to act like it's you.

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Now, one of the biggest examples of this is where a lot of people, a lot of hackers, I would say

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that use this will typically do it in a malicious manner where they are taking over people's cookies

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because they're trying to get commission sales from a specific vendor.

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So, for example, with Amazon, Amazon has cookies.

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If you sign up for them as an affiliate, let's say you have some sort of blog out there or somebody

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has a blog or a website where they promote Amazon products.

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Right.

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And so somebody lands on the website there.

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They click on the Amazon product, they go to Amazon.com.

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They then get a cookie on their computer.

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With Amazon's cookie there for, I think, 30 days.

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And so what people will do as far as these hackers is they'll steal those cookies and they'll move them

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over to their own Amazon affiliate account.

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And so now the original individual, that customer to Amazon, is no longer getting their commission

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because their cookies have been stolen by these hackers.

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And so now the hackers are getting the commissions instead of the actual initial Web page or website

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blog that actually brought the customer to Amazon.

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And so these are the most common methods of hacking that's going to be here for this one.

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And we'll see you on the next one.