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Would you or others care to share the story of how they got hacked? The only time I've been aware of getting hacked, my friend handed me his computer and said,
by fabulist 12y ago
Would you or others care to share the story of how they got hacked?
The only time I've been aware of getting hacked, my friend handed me his computer and said, "You're a nerd, find me a live pirate stream of the Big Game. Quick, people are coming over!" Friend may be too strong a word, but I gave it a shot even though I thought it hopeless. I went to some sketchy pirate sites, and I clicked on a link. A popup launched, and immediately there was an error; "Shockwave has crashed."
"Do you install updates?"
"No, why?"
Another time, my brother was lamenting that he couldn't take pictures with his phone because his SD card broke. I never used mine, so I pulled it out and handed it to him. A few days later I had to get some information immediately and the only device available was my phone. I was on a website and an error popped up; it was to the effect of "Can't download someapp.apk because you don't have an SD card."
Close call.
Edited to add:
https://incidents.org https://incidents.org has good reads.
- krrrh 12y ago> Safari can not verify the identity of "incidents.org". Would you like to continue anyway? That's what I get in iOS. Teachable moment?
- fabulist 12y agoPerhaps. It reminded me of another incident; I tried to access EFF's Panopticlick, and got a certificate signed by "OHAI THAR" or something like that.
- thaumaturgy 12y agoIt's using an isc.sans.org certificate. Connecting to https://isc.sans.org/ https://isc.sans.org/ gives the exact same site, with no warnings.