- I'm out running a few errands with my son
and we made a pit stop here at Starbucks to show
you guys how easy it is to have your YouTube channel
hacked and lose everything that you have worked on
just by not doing a few simple things to protect yourself.
That's coming up.
Zeke, you want something to drink, what do you want?
- Water and hot chocolate.
- Water and hot chocolate alright let's go get it.
A lot of people don't realize that at places like
coffee shops and airports or any place where there's
public open wifi is actually very easy for anyone
to get on that wifi network and just start sniffing
all the data packets that are crossing that network
meaning they are getting access to everything
that you are doing on your YouTube channel
or just on your device in general.
Which creates a pretty significant security risk
it doesn't even really matter if it's a secured network
because even then it really only takes about a device
that costs around $115 or so and about 15 minutes
to a half hour for all those data packets that are
encrypted to be sniffed out and eventually unlocked
and then someone can just get all that data too.
So secure wifi is really not a thing
and certainly public open wifi is not
even pretending to be secure.
Especially here in the US earlier in 2017 a law was changed
that allows internet providers to track what we do online
and sell that data to advertisers, so even your home
internet connection, so more links about that
in the description below if you want to learn more
but the one simple, easy thing that you can do
to secure yourself whether your home network
or especially if you're out traveling is to use
a VPN a Virtual Private Network.
What a VPN does is it adds another layer of encryption
and security to your information as it's being
transferred over the internet to whatever
the destination site is you happen
to be browsing or using.
It encrypts everything on your device, whether it be
your computer or your mobile phone before it even goes
out to your internet connection then anything that
passes over the internet your internet provider can't
see it, people who are on the public wifi with you
or even on your secured network, your internet
provider can't throttle different types of bandwidth
because all it just sees is data it doesn't really
know what it is there's just encrypted data.
And actually it doesn't become unencrypted until it
exits at whatever VPN you happen to be connecting
through and then at that point you're secure
and they can't trace it back to you.
This is especially important to me because as someone
who makes a living posting things online.
Let's say I post something that someone doesn't really
like they can theoretically get my IP address
and track it back to me and show up right on my doorstep
and do whatever they want.
Like the privacy thing is nonexistent, unless you're using
a VPN it's really simply cost effective, easy to use
and you don't even notice that it's there.
It's just something I highly recommend.
It's the first thing that I do to secure myself.
I've used a lot of VPN services and I've learned that
you definitely get what you pay for.
The one that I use and highly recommend is called
ExpressVPN link to them below, not sponsoring this video
or anything at all I'm just telling you that's
who I use and that's who I feel like especially with
streaming video and publishing video and everything
they have hands down worked the best for me.
Good peek out there.
The second thing that I do to keep myself secure
and safe online is that I use LastPass, which is a vault
for all my passwords, every password that I use on
every different site is just a long random string
of random characters and symbols and no website that
I log into is sharing the same password.
I don't know what any of my passwords are in fact
except for when I log into LastPass
and then that unlocks my whole password vault
on my computer for me to then log in securely
the reason why this secures me is because when
sites get hacked and passwords are revealed most people
are using the same few passwords for all their sites
so once someone has one of your passwords
they can usually log in to multiple other accounts
that you have on different platforms and websites
and get access to other data of yours.
So it's very important that you use a different
password for every website and as well that is also very
difficult to crack it's just a random string of characters.
So LastPass makes that very very easy,
also none of this is sponsored guys just telling you
this is who I use and link to them is down
in the description below as well.
A third thing to do to keep yourself safe is to
set up two step verification, a lot of you hopefully
know what this is but this is when you not only need
a password to log in but you also need a device
to log in and so like you'll get text messages
of a secret code that you need to type in
right whenever you're trying to log in
or something like that so you need someone's
password and you need their device
in order to access their account.
It is a little extra annoying it is one extra step
that you have to do but for the security
and the safety it's absolutely well worth the extra five
to seven seconds it might take you to log into something.
If you're not sure how to set that up for your
YouTube channel there's a link in the description
below where you can go check that out, it's free it
doesn't cost anything it's just a good step to enable
before it's too late.
That's the kicker, most people do it after they've
already had security problems.
The fourth thing to keep your channel from being hacked
and keep yourself safe online is to make sure you
only click on links in emails that you know are official
and that you are expecting.
I know this sounds like hey, any internet savvy person
should know this but it was not too long ago that I was
in a hotel room at a conference, we were splitting
the room, I was with a friend and woke up in the morning
and was several five figures just gone from his AdSense
account and it came down because he got an email
that looked like it was official, from YouTube
he clicked on it and ended up accidentally
making someone else a manager of his channel they changed
the AdSense ID on the channel and he didn't know that
anything was changed until a while later and when he lost
a lot of money, so if you ever get an email that looks
like it's from YouTube or looks like it's
from Google, you weren't expecting it just don't
click on anything just open up another tab in your browser
and go type in directly and go straight to the google
thing that like security page or whatever that it's
telling you you need to address
and do it that way instead.
- [Zeke] Thank you dad for buying hot chocolate and water.
- You're welcome z, any other ways that they should
keep themselves safe online Zeke, what do you think?
- I don't know.
- Okay, keeping your accounts and all your hard work
safe online is something that people, I know they really
don't think about until it's too late.
Just like you know you probably don't put
a backup system until you lose your first bulk
of important data then you're like okay I'm gonna
start backing up.
Don't let that happen to you, get yourself secured
do these simple things, all the links are down there below
guys I don't want to hear from any more friends of mine
who've had their YouTube channels hacked
and lost years of hard work their entire business
and all their income just because they didn't do something
simple that you know even cost them maybe a few bucks
a month you know it would be totally worth it.
If you have any other tips and ideas of how to keep
your channel safe and yourself secure online please
comment below the rest of you guys read those comments
let's all just learn from each other and if this
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and we don't want you to lose that opportunity.
Do this stuff guys, subscribe and I'll see you guys
again on Thursday, bye.
Was it good hot chocolate?
- I didn't drink it all.
- You didn't drink it all, was it not good, oh there it is
was it not good?
- It was yummy I just drank more water,
I just drank water too.
- Okay you're more thirsty for water
than the hot chocolate alright.