I've seen some recent cyber attack in Steemit community, I would like to share my ideas on how to protect yourself from bad guys or what they call it black hat hackers. No matter how sophisticated anti-virus or firewall you have , by using social engineering the bad guys can hacked your account effortlessly without dealing any security systems you have. So what is social engineering?
Social Engineering is a tool used by a hacker through psychological manipulation that targets mainly innocent social media users.
It is easier for a hacker to use social engineering to target individual users than breaching business establishment. That's why we need to educate ourselves from it and those bad guys uses common attack technique like: Phishing or social media phishing.
Phishing is a technique that imitate legitimate website to gain your trust. Then they will request your confidential information like password and user name, and they will ask to download something that contains a malicious files. One of the example incident was faking the GTG. witness account.
There are more attack technique that a bad hackers uses and here's the examples
Here's the rule to prevent your account from hacking:
- Make sure you are in the right website before entering your username and password.
- Don't open a website that you don't trust.
- If someone offering you a money without any reasons at all, just ignore it.
- Don't keep your password in your email or any online sites, put it offline: you can print your password and put it in a safe place.
- SMS authentication is not recommended.
- Always update your security system.
Though I'm not a cyber security expert, but it will only requires common sense and education to keep our account safe and sound. I need your help by providing more details in this article. thanks :)
