Protect Yourself from Getting Hacked

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i’m sorry to say, but this blog entry was just a waste of time. i would like to see more thought out content. all of above points are either plain common sense or just wrong. and to make things worse, it is also implying the old hacker misconception.
cheers,
stefano.

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Re: Stefano: Well, some people are new to computers and dont know the stuff to do. Like the Wi-Fi people barely know how to turn on the router let alone secure it. And some of the 12 year-olds go and download free screensavers all the time. This is a great entry.

Cheers,
Google

okay i’m going to try to clarify it a bit here,
this is going to be a long one.
my originial post actually was a somewhat influenced by emotion, i can’t stand the agrument that hackers are the bad guys who want your money and you can protect yourselve from them in this or that way. the real story is this, hackers are there for our good, i myself would call me a hacker, i do penetration tests on systems and i secure them afterwards. this is what hackers do. the people who want to rip you off, infect your windows computer with malware and all that, they’re just scam artists. thiefs, if you will.
as for the tips being common sense, i still think so, but as KrnSidez said, some people might not know, fair enough.
here’s an idea on how to fix this,
what about a video or a blog post on what hackers are?
this is what i tell people who want to know what hackers are:
hackers are people who are enthusiastic about using computers and electronics to get a certain result - as in creative usage of technology. furthermore, hackers generally use technology in ways they are not neccesarily supposed to be used.
some people might argue that there’s this white-, grey- and blackhat theme to be applied to various types of hackers, but i’ll just stick with calling those who use technology for ripping off people criminals, plain and simple.
something else i want to throw in here is, that most of the people the general public considers hackers in the worst meaning of the word don’t really do a lot of creative work in order to pull off their cons. for instance, i would not consider someone a hacker who downloads a copy of cain and abel, lets it run over the network and impresses his friends by telling them their passwords (but is this such a bad thing after all?), but someone who builds a quadrocopter-drone that flies without human control and takes pictures of areas programmed into it which it finds with gps, that person is clearly a hacker. but all that is not the normal scenario, so i’ll give another example that some people might be able to relate to. a person aquires acces to a corporate network by using security flaws, does a portscan, finds a box with some software that is exploitable and places a file on it. that is a good thing isnt it. the sysadmin finds the file and secures this particular box.

so please,
in the future, let’s all use the term hacker in a reasonable fashion, and thereby pay some respect to the people who make our bank transfers secure, keep our firewalls safe and program our encryption software.
we owe them, big time.

hope i have brougt some sense into my angry rant over there,
cheers,
stefano.

Also watch out for fake login screens even if you are at home.

use mac. just use mac!

Get a Mac

he has a mac.
that leptop in front is a macbook!! he just stuk a mouse pad over the appel logo

is vista bitlocker good/smart to activate?

Any system is vulnerable be it windows, mac or linux. You make it sound like if you are no a mac you can pretty much go anywhere on the net and leave your computer wide open without worrying. Play smart and don’t take any chances.

follow the tips whether you use windows or mac… or linux… sorry, I forget about that one all the time.
Anyway, why trust your security to “some software” when you can do a better job yourself by not doing stupid stuff on the internet.

Nice Chris

How can I tell if the login screen is fake?

Use a good firewall for ur pc. this will protect by blocking unwanted programs from opening ports.

Of you have a router (wireless), use private ip addresses and block ports that are not required and use 128 bit encryption.

For Uber-security use finger print scanner :D

bit locker is only good if you get your harddrive stolen not so much for hacking.

myspace has a ton of fake myspace urls

Hey Chris why don’t you put some of the videos on dvds, I know one youtube user JamesNintendoNerd who released a DVD just a few months ago and to anyone else he really funny so check out his channel.

LOL
my ip is on all my books at skoool
ummmm….. might wanna white that out lol

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and dont forget to turn of bluetooth

ow, oke thanks

RE AreaSecure:
Actually fingerprint scanners are fairly easy to trick.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3M8D4wWYgsc
this video shows how it can be done, really easy. sorry it’s in german, but you’ll get it anyways.

why would u put your ip on ur books?

you look at the url if the url is not the website u want then its fake

how do you protect your wifi

Security Tip - Don’t Use Windows. :)

I agree 100% with this post, expecially with company using your computer. I think somethings need to stay hidden and that includes your ip address. Now one thing most people don’t realize is that your ip address is sometimes posted with blogs, guestbooks, infact it can be posted anywhere. Probobly most of our ip addresses are already all over the internet and we don’t even know :)

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I’m scared when i go trough every day spyware scan, this is agression. Hackers deservs JAIL!!!

also you should have your PC connected to a router and have a firewall so not only will your IP address be protected from ports being access because the router wont know where to router the port access to unless you have yur ports forwarded to your PC like being directly connected to the Internet but the firewall will also protect it, so you will have two levels of security.

also you should have your PC connected to a router and have a firewall so not only will your IP address be protected from ports being access because the router wont know where to router the port access to unless you have yur ports forwarded to your PC like being directly connected to the Internet but the firewall will also protect it, so you will have two levels of security.

another way is get linux lol

this was very helpfull !

lol i have for every acc in the internet a different password and/or username.

this guy’s nerdier than screech from saved by the bell…..

you should protect it with a wep key or higher

IP doesn’t really matter, if you have a IP that changes everytime you connect to the internet.