Privacy And Hacking

Most people who use the internet will know some basic information on tier privacy online and how to avoid getting hacked or what to do if you get hacked. Not a lot of people really tell you what hacking is.

What is Hacking?

Hacking is where someone steals your personal information without your consent. It is having your account details leaked and posted somewhere. It is losing your account as you do not have a secure password. It is someone testing a system to gain access to this system without the user knowing. There are lots of versions of hacking that you might see online and these include someone stealing your bank account details and transferring money from your account to their account. Hackers have accessed over 7.9 billion consumer records so far this year, with experts predicting that over 8.5 billion accounts will be exposed by the end of the year. The majority of the over 5,000 data hacks this year Risk Based Security has tracked so far consisted of only a few million accounts.

Good And Bad Hacks

You might read up on some good hackers these are called whitehat hackers they are paid to test the security of a system to see if they can gain access to this system and how secure a webpage is and then send these notes to the user of the website or system so that the user can improve their security to make sure that the bad hackers ( Blackhat) can not access them. Now onto the bad hackers. These are people who want to steal your data and use it with malicious intent. This means that they might want to exploit you for you to pay money to get your data back or they might just want to kick you out of the account just to do it out of spite.

How to prevent it

There are not many ways that you can actually stop hackers from getting your data because if they really want to get your data they will find a way around it. There are some ways you can use to help slow them down and that is having a secure password that contains special characters, lower characters, upper-case characters, and numbers. If you make this password long enough then they might not be able to access your account and you should be using a different password for each site that you use. You can also make sure that your internet security is up to date and use anti-virus and a firewall to prevent access to your system. Don't click on any links that might look suspicious and make sure at the start of the link there is an HTTPS:// as this means that the link is secure.

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