Hacking becomes a pressing issue these days and many are facing a huge loss for this action. Actually there has been many wrong facts that prevails around people. Lets discuss who is responsible for hacking that happens.
Hacking word has been misunderstood by many people and it is just an act of making a system do a function which it is not intended to do. Computers are protected with IDS, Firewall, Anti Virus and many more protection mechanism. Then why this happens?
1. Many of us fails to update or fix security patches because it may consume large data or many are using pirated softwares so it is not done to avoid getting caught.
2. One of the classical practice is downloading a cracked version of Anti Virus and many products cant be updated if not original. Missing to buy a paid one is a big problem.
3. Our craziness towards offers and free products. If a 100 mail stating about a fake free offer atleast 20 will respond to that link which may lead to an attack.
4. Having an awesome password like password123; admin123; p@ssw0rd; mypass any many more can be easily cracked as they are famous one and most widely used.
5. Clicking on the links or pop ups to see what it holds. Users may think what will happen if i just click a pop up. It is more than enough to plant a malware or do any nasty work with just a click.
6. Providing all details such as favourite dish, novel, music, pet name and many in social media and having them as a security question for mail recovery. Great is it not ?
7. Not linking the account with your phone number. Failing will not notify you if other changed the password and it will also help in recovering the lost account control or resetting passwords.
Now think what is the use of having all security mechanism which are controlled by a person who is not cautious. That why it is stated "Humans are the weakest link".
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
No comments:
Post a Comment