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Ask questions like why would someone target me or what's the point of a hacker taking over my PC or

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my account.

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All these are good questions.

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The thing you have to realize is is no longer a human being that is actually attacking you a human being

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is written or even now bought automated programs then let loose to hunt down vulnerable software without

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human beings need to waste their time at all.

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They effectively cast huge nets out over the Internet in order to find what is vulnerable.

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Which means you and I probably just as likely targets as anyone else.

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You will probably already have been a target if you didn't already know for example your internet router

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will more than likely be scanned every day to look for their abilities.

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I'm sure you've probably received spam emails and then there phishing attacks potentially where they're

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trying to get you to download a virus or go to a site where there's a virus or malware and you've definitely

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been to Web sites that have been attacked or attempted to be attacked or have been compromised.

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So we're all potentially victims or we're all potentially targets additional to this.

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You have someone or some organization that could be specifically targeting you.

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And this is more serious in the military.

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This is referred to as the advanced persistent threat or a p t.

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This could be anything from for example you know an X partner trying to get access to your Facebook

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to maybe live in a country where there's some sort of totalitarian government.

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And they're trying to look at everything that you do.

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The situation will be unique to you.

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Most people only need to concern themselves with not getting caught in the large net cast by the many

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criminal hacking groups.

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You can see in front of me now is a threat intelligence monitored by Knauss.

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What they've done is they've deliberately set up vulnerable servers which are known as honeypots to

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monitor the behavior of hackers and cyber criminals so they can understand the behavior and the new

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things that they're doing and the trends.

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And this is just a tiny number of servers.

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Imagine if this represented all of the attacks on the Internet why do they bother with all this effort.

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It must be worth it to them.

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Generally the motive for wanting to access your accounts steal your identity take control of your PC

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is money.

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The odds edge cases where it relates to political or moralistic motives but mostly it's all about the

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almighty dollar.

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But you might be thinking how do they turn my PC or account into money.

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I'll show you.

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CONTOURI McAfee report for 45 billion dollars annually is lost to cybercrime a year that equates to

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about 266 billion UK pounds.

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So crime does pay an especially for people living in poorer countries where you can see here in front

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of you is all of the various ways in which your PC could be useful to a cyber criminal.

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Web hosting for example they can use your PC as a web server so your content perform illegal and hacking

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activities form email attacks virtual goods they can sell virtual goods for currency reputation hijacking

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accounts can be sold again but activities take down Web sites blackmail sites account credentials.

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Again these can be sold financial credentials.

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Course these can be used to gain money hostage attacks identity theft much of the trading in order to

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receive currency is done in a cryptocurrency.

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Bitcoin is the most popular at the moment when money can be received in semi-anonymous transfers and

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cash outs.

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And here's some of the examples of if they get access to your e-mail and is value to them.

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So privacy related.

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So stealing personal information files retail lots around here they can sell your accounts.

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People are interested in buying your accounts.

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They are then later used for further compromises further access to other useful things such as financial.

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Just straight up transferring money out of accounts.

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Buying virtual goods.

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Spam harvesting employment etc. etc. etc..

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Your email account is particularly juicy as a target because you can often get access to many or all

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of your other accounts through it and explains why we have a very active sub criminal underground on

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the Internet.

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It goes without saying that we need defenses to protect ourselves against them.

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If that is have anything of value to protect while we're on line but this course will guide you through

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understanding and reducing your online risk to acceptable levels through easy to apply steps.

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So let's get on with it.