Human The Weakest Link

The short video below might make you rethink how you use computers, mobile and technology. The bad guys got the mad skills and the government always playing catch up. We are all vulnerable to hacking no matter how skilled or vigilante we are with our digital security. Takes just one lapse in judgement and your life gets thrown into chaos. And sometimes you don’t have to do anything to get hacked. The bad guy gets to you by exploiting human weakness. It is pretty bleak. Humans are the weakest link when it comes to Web security.

Hackers are crafty creatures. They not only study machines but humans also. Sometimes users are oblivious to the dangers online and hackers count on that for their opening. As soon as a user makes a mistake it’s lights out. Bad guy is in the network like a cockroach and he won’t leave until his dirty deed is done. And even if he leaves without a trace 4 out of 5 times he has left a backdoor in the network. Unless a skilled admin finds it and plugs it, your network is now an open book for more hackers and script kiddies alike.

We trust banks with our hard earned money but they too gets hacked. Even online password manager applications getting hacked. We are suppose to feel safe using these businesses but we can’t. People make mistakes. Lazy sysdamin fails to patch the network regularly. Bank manager falls for a phishing scheme via a hot blonde email in his inbox. Human weakness asking to be exploited over and over again. Video link below.