We are Exposed to Cybercrime : WEEK 151

We are Exposed to Cybercrime, how to deal with it

When you go out in the street, you make sure you don't take out your phone too much, or go through places that are not so crowded, you look sideways, and when a motor vehicle passes you, you get nervous, because you think you might be attacked; when you travel, you are afraid to leave your house, because they might break in and rob you.

There are so many things that one thinks, to which we are always exposed to suffer, with so much insecurity in the world where we live, that we have to go out anyway, because, well, we can't always stay locked up, can we? But even at home, we are not safe.

The detail is that human beings are non-conformist, greedy, selfish, and all this leads them to attack, to look for ways to attack the weakest, to take advantage of them, and to take everything they can from them, without thinking about the consequences, or the damage that their actions may cause.

We are vulnerable

Addressing the theme of this weekend, regarding the rise of cybercrime, this is the new way they have found to attack the most innocent, taking everything, their identity, their income, no doubt, we do not escape this human evil, because for me this has no other name.

Man, the human being, making use of this modern equipment, of these new technologies, commits these cyber crimes, with their programmes, their codes, they erase everything, they take everything from you, and one who is unaware of these risks, trusts them, this is where we are exposed, sharing everything, without thinking about the possible consequences.

We must be alert

I tell you an anecdote, a couple of months ago a person wrote to me telling me that he had lost his Instagram account, that he needed my data, to recover them, this is where one must be alert, because they ask you to get information from you, then, it makes you think, what does one thing have to do with the other, my data with his account.

The truth was not the first time that he asked me for my data, and to do things that I did not see sense, all that had me intrigued, I consulted several friends, and they all told me not to give him anything, because it was very suspicious, when you give your information to someone like that, you run the risk of opening the way for them to hack your accounts.

There are many ways to get into your account, it does not necessarily have to be from your computer, we can not trust, to give you click some weird link, offering you some page to earn easy money, and it turns out that this is where these criminals' computer, take over your information, your data, your accounts, stealing everything.

As I said we are all exposed, even here in the blockchain, we have heard and seen cases where they get into other people's accounts, and make changes, take money out of their wallet, it is unpredictable, it can happen

It is, therefore, that we must take measures, always be vigilant, making backups, do not leave our passwords exposed, use the authentication factor, among other things, we can not trust, because these criminals are aware of any carelessness of one.

¿Why does this happen? How does it happen? Or why do they do it? Well these are questions that I would also like to know, I would like to understand, but not even the most expert hacker can answer, they do it because they want to, because they can, as I mentioned, they are selfish, ambitious, unscrupulous, they do not care about hurting anyone, that's the only answer I can find.

Anyway, thank you friend @galenkp, for this space, I wanted to take advantage of this topic, to give my opinion on this, and I ask you, what do you do to take care of your accounts to these possible attacks, I read them.