the internet is a dangerous place
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Caution! This might disturb you. Learn how hackers attempt to steal your data and money.TRANSCRIPT
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Caution!
This might disturb you.
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Scary material for strong nerves only.
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Be warned!
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Okay... You asked for it.
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Fact #1:
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The Internet is a more dangerous place than you may think it is.
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Why?
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Hackers!
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Malware writers!
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Fraudsters!
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Blackmailers!
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Money launderers!
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Thieves!
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Wait a moment…
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“How do they affect me?”
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Good question!
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Here’s a secret.
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Fact #2:
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Everyone knows viruses...
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viruses that spread invisibly...
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destroying your files...
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made by evil hackers who make fun of you.
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But those viruses hardly exist anymore!
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Fact #3:
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Today we face a wide variety of threats.
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Threats that are more sneaky and nasty.
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They all have one thing in mind:
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Cash!
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It’s all about the money.
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Your money!
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This is how it works:
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Real-world example 1:
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Wiping your bank account
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You get an email from a well known parcel service, asking you whether the package described in
the attached document is expected.
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You open the attached PDF file and nothing really happens.
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But the email was forged and the attachment was an exploit
program that already invisibly manipulated your browser.
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You don’t realize that anything bad happened and continue your
work.
There is an invoice due today...
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You login to your online banking portal and send a payment
through the “secure” interface as usual.
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Then you check your account balance again and everything looks fine. Your payment was
processed as expected - it seems.
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What you don’t know: Your bank account is already wiped.
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How?!
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A financial trojan manipulated the bank’s website.
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Instead of executing your transfer, it sent all your money to a
fraudster bank account.
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Your balance page was manipulated to simulate legitimate transactions.
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The scary truth is: Unless your bank gives you a call reporting
unusual activity, you won't even know about the theft.
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You probably wouldn’t realize until it’s far too late to cancel the
transaction.
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And then you'd spend weeks getting everything sorted, back to
a normal life.
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Note: Even PIN confirmations sent to your cell phone are not safe.
Several banking trojans for mobiles grab and forward them to
the fraudsters.
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Real-world example 2:
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Turning your computer into a zombie bot
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A hacker opens up a webserver that was not updated properly
and starts manipulating the hosted websites.
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While surfing around you see a warning popup on a website
telling you to install the latest Flash Player, and you click “OK”
to start the update.
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But you actually downloaded a tiny trojan dropper onto your PC that already started to hide and
begin its harmful actions.
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The dropper loads a larger trojan component that converts your PC
into a zombie, that waits for instructions from its “master”.
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You don’t get suspicious since the PC behaves as usual. No files are damaged, no slow-down can be
noticed.
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What you don’t know: Your PC is now part of a botnet of 100,000
computers. Together they have an incredible computing power.
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Hackers sell that computing power to spammers, blackmailers
and others.
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A spam bot can drop thousands of emails every day without anyone noticing it. Your new broadband
internet does a great job!
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Blackmailers can instruct many thousands of bots to connect simultaneously to a company
website, overloading it until the owner pays a ransom.
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You may not care about all these things, but bots can do much
more.
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Just think of a cheap data storage for illegal content. Copyrighted
data, child porn, terrorism support, fraud, just to name a few.
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You would never know about all that's happening on your home
computer - until the police knock at your door.
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You are responsible for what’s going on on your PC!
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Real-world example 3:
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Forced to pay a ransom
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An attacker finds an easy way to drop a little program on your
computer because it misses the latest Java update.
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While you are away from your PC, the program starts to encrypt all
your data files with a really strong encryption method.
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Once it has finished its job, a scary full screen window becomes
visible.
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You have to pay a $600 ransom to an anonymous Bitcoin or uCash account to get the password for
decryption.
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Unfortunately there is no possible way to crack the password in less
than 50 million years. The password is stored on a
webserver you can’t access.
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You can either pay or lose all your data if you don’t have recent backups stored on external
devices.
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Unbelievable, isn’t it?
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Well, that’s what we deal with day by day.
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To be more precise: We deal with 300,000 of them.
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Every single day!
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(and we’re really good at it)
:)
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“So, how shall I protect myself from all those attacks?”
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You should use a reliable anti-malware with real-time
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A protection software you can trust, without restrictions.
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Protection that doesn’t even let you access websites that share
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Protection that uses two major virus- and malware-scanning engines for the best possible
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