WEBVTT 00:00.920 --> 00:07.790 Ask questions like why would someone target me or what's the point of a hacker taking over my PC or 00:07.790 --> 00:09.000 my account. 00:09.330 --> 00:11.260 All these are good questions. 00:11.270 --> 00:18.440 The thing you have to realize is is no longer a human being that is actually attacking you a human being 00:18.450 --> 00:28.790 is written or even now bought automated programs then let loose to hunt down vulnerable software without 00:28.790 --> 00:32.070 human beings need to waste their time at all. 00:32.140 --> 00:39.260 They effectively cast huge nets out over the Internet in order to find what is vulnerable. 00:39.620 --> 00:45.050 Which means you and I probably just as likely targets as anyone else. 00:45.050 --> 00:52.130 You will probably already have been a target if you didn't already know for example your internet router 00:52.250 --> 00:57.550 will more than likely be scanned every day to look for their abilities. 00:57.680 --> 01:02.480 I'm sure you've probably received spam emails and then there phishing attacks potentially where they're 01:02.480 --> 01:09.320 trying to get you to download a virus or go to a site where there's a virus or malware and you've definitely 01:09.320 --> 01:16.030 been to Web sites that have been attacked or attempted to be attacked or have been compromised. 01:16.100 --> 01:22.950 So we're all potentially victims or we're all potentially targets additional to this. 01:22.970 --> 01:28.230 You have someone or some organization that could be specifically targeting you. 01:28.520 --> 01:30.310 And this is more serious in the military. 01:30.310 --> 01:34.130 This is referred to as the advanced persistent threat or a p t. 01:34.160 --> 01:40.130 This could be anything from for example you know an X partner trying to get access to your Facebook 01:40.520 --> 01:45.290 to maybe live in a country where there's some sort of totalitarian government. 01:45.450 --> 01:48.280 And they're trying to look at everything that you do. 01:48.320 --> 01:50.570 The situation will be unique to you. 01:50.600 --> 01:57.290 Most people only need to concern themselves with not getting caught in the large net cast by the many 01:57.290 --> 01:59.040 criminal hacking groups. 01:59.170 --> 02:03.800 You can see in front of me now is a threat intelligence monitored by Knauss. 02:03.980 --> 02:10.160 What they've done is they've deliberately set up vulnerable servers which are known as honeypots to 02:10.160 --> 02:15.860 monitor the behavior of hackers and cyber criminals so they can understand the behavior and the new 02:15.860 --> 02:18.370 things that they're doing and the trends. 02:18.590 --> 02:21.380 And this is just a tiny number of servers. 02:21.380 --> 02:27.860 Imagine if this represented all of the attacks on the Internet why do they bother with all this effort. 02:27.860 --> 02:29.630 It must be worth it to them. 02:29.690 --> 02:34.940 Generally the motive for wanting to access your accounts steal your identity take control of your PC 02:35.570 --> 02:36.640 is money. 02:36.830 --> 02:44.180 The odds edge cases where it relates to political or moralistic motives but mostly it's all about the 02:44.180 --> 02:45.330 almighty dollar. 02:45.390 --> 02:49.910 But you might be thinking how do they turn my PC or account into money. 02:50.090 --> 02:51.010 I'll show you. 02:51.040 --> 02:58.880 CONTOURI McAfee report for 45 billion dollars annually is lost to cybercrime a year that equates to 02:59.030 --> 03:02.370 about 266 billion UK pounds. 03:02.510 --> 03:08.240 So crime does pay an especially for people living in poorer countries where you can see here in front 03:08.240 --> 03:15.790 of you is all of the various ways in which your PC could be useful to a cyber criminal. 03:15.830 --> 03:23.720 Web hosting for example they can use your PC as a web server so your content perform illegal and hacking 03:23.720 --> 03:32.390 activities form email attacks virtual goods they can sell virtual goods for currency reputation hijacking 03:32.570 --> 03:40.210 accounts can be sold again but activities take down Web sites blackmail sites account credentials. 03:40.220 --> 03:43.730 Again these can be sold financial credentials. 03:43.760 --> 03:50.630 Course these can be used to gain money hostage attacks identity theft much of the trading in order to 03:50.630 --> 03:54.680 receive currency is done in a cryptocurrency. 03:54.680 --> 04:01.740 Bitcoin is the most popular at the moment when money can be received in semi-anonymous transfers and 04:01.790 --> 04:02.960 cash outs. 04:03.320 --> 04:08.820 And here's some of the examples of if they get access to your e-mail and is value to them. 04:08.960 --> 04:11.450 So privacy related. 04:11.480 --> 04:17.990 So stealing personal information files retail lots around here they can sell your accounts. 04:17.990 --> 04:19.840 People are interested in buying your accounts. 04:19.840 --> 04:28.280 They are then later used for further compromises further access to other useful things such as financial. 04:28.330 --> 04:31.940 Just straight up transferring money out of accounts. 04:31.940 --> 04:33.460 Buying virtual goods. 04:33.590 --> 04:39.250 Spam harvesting employment etc. etc. etc.. 04:39.320 --> 04:46.220 Your email account is particularly juicy as a target because you can often get access to many or all 04:46.220 --> 04:52.250 of your other accounts through it and explains why we have a very active sub criminal underground on 04:52.250 --> 04:53.640 the Internet. 04:53.660 --> 04:58.350 It goes without saying that we need defenses to protect ourselves against them. 04:58.610 --> 05:06.580 If that is have anything of value to protect while we're on line but this course will guide you through 05:06.670 --> 05:12.730 understanding and reducing your online risk to acceptable levels through easy to apply steps. 05:12.730 --> 05:14.670 So let's get on with it.