First Necessary steps to stay safe on internet

 - Mr. Robot is probablyone of the most accurate portrayals of whathackers can actively do. If you're interested in hacking and don't understand a lot of this, the TV show itselfactually employs hackers to work on the show todepict real life hacks that could happen in real life and it's a very very accurate portrayal of everything that we see today. From being able to hack smartphones to getting access to a big corporation and being able to bringthem to their knees from a cyber perspective. So what's the top fivethings that you can do to make yourself more secure both at your business and your home? Number one, use two factor authentication or two step verificationeverywhere that you can. Your banking systems, Twitter, Facebook all support the ability for you to enable an additional securityfeature that you may not know. You go to your settings, it's in there. You can enable it andevery time that you log in, it'll register your computer, and you can then get a text message to go into that system as asecond form of verification. And why that's importantis because if a hacker gets access to yourpassword, they still have to have access to your phoneto get access to your account. And that's really important by enabling that specific securitystep, probably number one. Number two, don't use thesame password everywhere. I know it's hard, but usingthe same password everywhere is one of probably the easiest ways that we break in as hackers. So if you have the same Twitter password as your same banking information, those are things that can getyou in some serious trouble. Number three, make surethat you stay up to date. Those security patches. Every time you have a Windows update that says "Hyy I need toupdate your computer," it's usually to fix a known attack that hackers have figured out to get access to your computer. So keep up to date whetheryou're using a Mac, they aren't impervious to attack, or you're using Windows, same thing, update your systems. That's the most important thing, always keep up to date withwhat you're having out there. Same thing for third-party applications. If you're using Java, Adobe,PDFs, Office documents, those are all things thatyou want to keep up to date and that makes it muchharder for us as hackers to break in to your system. Number four, social media, be careful with how much informationyou actually put online. We as attackers can look at that. Look at what you do, your spending habits, what you might be doing froma day-to-day perspective, going and buying Starbucksat a certain location. Those are all things thatwe can use to identify when you're gonna be out of the country or when you're gonna beat a business meeting. We can use that as a method to attack you. One of the main thingsthat we do as hackers, especially when it comesto social engineering, is we create a sense of urgency. Something that you're familiar with, but you have to take action upon. So let's just say for example,I'm a Verizon customer and I have an Amazon packagethat's getting delivered. Well, if I, as an attacker,know an Amazon package is getting delivered,sending a text message from a Verizon customersupport service line coming from Amazonsaying "Hey your package is being rerouted," youneed to log into the site to get it delivered again, is something that an attacker can use. So those are things thatattackers can leverage is urgency, how you actually operate, and all that informationthat you post online are things that we can use as attacks. And last but not least,personal information. That's one of the biggestthings that attackers can leverage to get access to your data. Things like social security numbers, your credit card numbers. A person is not goingto call you on the phone from a banking service and ask you for that type of information. So whenever you get a call,that's too good to be true, or a call that is a fraudservices line, call them back. Look at the number onthe website themselves and call it back cause alot of times attackers will impersonate financial services. They'll impersonatedifferent organizations to try to get your personal information and use that to be able tomake fraudulent charges. So when it comes to that,your phone, verify first. Go to their site, call thesite itself, off from there and then call to an actualperson that's actually at that institute itself.