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Summary: Hackers send grandmother phishing mail. Grandmother enter her email address and password. Hackers go into house of Grandmother. Hackers change settings
by TlDrBot 11y ago
Summary: Hackers send grandmother phishing mail. Grandmother enter her email address and password. Hackers go into house of Grandmother. Hackers change settings on router and and television of grandmother.
- acbabis 11y agoYeah, this isn't really that scary as long as you know how to spot phishing scams. Am disappoint.
- onion2k 11y agoA chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If anyone has enough privileges for a malicious attacker to use their account/info to compromise your network then that is the measure of how well protected you are. In this case it was a grandmother, but it doesn't have to be. It could be a salesperson, an HR manager, a burnt out developer. When a business grows to a sufficient size that there are people working in it who are disinterested in "computers" or "processes" (in the case of a software startup that's probably over about 10 staff), then you suddenly introduce some huge weak points in your IT infrastructure. That should be scary.
- acbabis 11y agoYeah, I guess I should be scared that companies I trust might be making these types of mistakes; I hadn't seen it from that angle. I'm just disappointed that the article was about "hackers" but just talked about scams most of us are already aware of; seems kind of click-baity. They could have entitled the article "Here's One Easy Trick to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft."
- nchelluri 11y agocurious, is this really a bot or someone just providing a service under the guise of a bot? be pretty cool if it was the former. that would be some serious natural language processing. (not that i know anything about that subject) i read the article, this post does seem like a pretty accurate summary.
- mkagenius 11y agoIts difficult for one person to judge that. Some kind of bias creeps in when you read the article and see the summary again since your mind fills the gap automatically which is created by the summary.
- lqdc13 11y agoYeah, I don't consider the phishing scams interesting at all. This seems like more of a marketing stunt than anything. And it's borderline not hacking. They actually didn't even do the whole thing themselves. Instead hired a phishing service... To me this is more similar to people dressed as UPS truck drivers going inside an apartment and stealing keys. Or a cashier taking a picture of a customer's credit card. P.S. Excellent bot if it is a bot. It seems to be taking sides on an issue and not just summarizing, which I haven't seen happen previously with any other summary bots.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoPhishing is hacking. It's social engineering. They didn't 'hire a phishing service'. They used a website.
- rezistik 11y agoSocial Engineering is absolutely hacking. This wasn't a sophisticated example, but it's still a very real threat.
- coldpie 11y agoI guess I have a narrower definition of hacking, specifically that it is using technology in a way it wasn't intended. If you ask someone for their credentials and they give them to you, I don't see that as being "a hack," although I guess modern parlance would say the victim "was hacked."
- kqr 11y ago"Hacking" is in everyday parlance not too far from "gaining unauthorised access to a technical system." Social engineering is often a very efficient alternative to rainbow tables, wiretapping, buffer overruns and other technical exploits.
- rezistik 11y agoIt's often the only or best way too. The more secure a place is the easier it is to get in. People become very trusting. Carry a clipbord and look like you know where you're going and you can walk damn near anywhere.