- Cyber attacks are all over the news right now.
And some experts are saying that the same issues
that face the NSA might also be affecting you.
Fox Business recently ran a report
that essentially said that Russian cyber attacks
that occur in the national level also might be directed
toward your personal devices and accounts.
- Americans are falling for the same tactics
that Russia has all proven
it can disrupt America's infrastructure.
What should we do in terms of protecting ourselves
from getting hacked or,
or getting, yeah, attacked, cyber?
- But is that actually true?
- We're gonna take a look at this Fox Business segment
and some of the tips that they recommended,
determine what's true, what's not so true,
and give you some tips of our own
that I think you'll find significantly more helpful.
- Be cautious right now with every link
inside of text, email, and social media.
- The first thing is to be cautious
with every link you receive in a text, or an email,
or maybe even a social media post.
- Is kind of true.
The most important thing is to be cautious
about you do after you click a link
in a text, email, or social media post.
Computers don't generally just get viruses
by going to the wrong website.
What happens is that people go to a fake website,
and then try to log in
with some account details that don't work,
or give up their credit card information.
And then they've accidentally
given their login to adversaries.
Is it Russia? Probably not.
But it happens all the time.
So that's why we assign this a threat level three.
- Yeah, phishing scams
are unfortunately pretty common with Apple too.
You get a lot of fake emails
from companies saying, oh, we're Apple.
But you can see in these emails that are typos
and the email address is not from Apple.com
It's from some crazy long domains.
So I think the thing to really focus on
is to not freak out immediately
because they wanna get you scared and in an emotional state
where you're not thinking clearly.
If you get something like this, take a step back,
take a deep breath and really thoroughly examine it.
- I totally agree.
And where else are you gonna get good life advice like that?
Like don't just do something, stand there, and tech advice.
- Subscribe to this channel.
- Here, yeah.
Subscribe to this channel because we're here for you.
We're giving you life advice, tech advice,
and later on, maybe some cooking tips.
Just kidding.
- The next item: double check your devices
for new software updates.
- And also, double check your devices right now
for the latest operating software.
Make sure that's up to date.
- Good advice, simple advice.
Should be doing that.
- Check your devices for software updates.
A threat level two.
It's rare that there's a huge problem
but we just saw a pretty big problem with Safari
get fixed by a software update.
- Link to that in the card above
and the description section below.
The next tip was to backup all of your data
to a physical device, not the cloud,
and then unplug it
- And then do what I do.
I back up all my personal data from my computer
and I unplug it.
- This is really not a concern threat-level-one-type video
where this is only important if you use a cloud service
that's not well known, which you probably don't
because Google, Dropbox, iCloud.
This corporate level security
is better than your security at home.
They do a good job of safeguarding people's data.
And, if I'm not mistaken, there was a politician whose son
dropped off a physical device
that found its way into the wrong hands.
So physical hard drives are not necessarily safe.
They are safe from power surges,
but I really don't think that people have to be afraid
of using cloud services.
Just sort of, as a matter of course.
- One thing we will point to is,
from a few years ago, the celebrity photo leak.
But since then Apples put in a lot of more measures
to prevent something like that from happening again.
So if that's what you're concerned about, don't.
- Use a strong password manager
'cause that's what they're trying to do,
is break into our passwords,
and believe me, they can.
- Kurt's next tip was to use a strong password manager
and that, threat level four.
100% agree.
- Agree because it's the only way
to use different passwords on every website.
And can I just say, David,
that I am sick of hearing companies say
that it's our fault for not using different passwords
on every single website
and remembering them,
because I'm pretty sure that there were a few companies
who have been hacked and released all of our personal data
over and over and over again.
I mean, chances are, if you've had an internet account
for more than five years,
your logins have been leaked and have been stolen.
So the only way to keep track of this
is to have a password manager. - And those companies
are living in glass houses and throwing stones.
- What the hell does that mean?
- Password manager iCloud Keychain is the one that I use.
If you're an Apple user, just use Keychain, it's great.
- Yep, Chrome has a built-in key chain too.
There are other ones that are paid.
- The most important thing
is really deploying good antivirus protection.
Make sure it's active, up-to-date
and on all of your devices.
- Kurt's next tip, threat level zero.
Buy good antivirus software.
Don't do it.
Your money is much better spent
on Payette Forward membership.
- Antivirus software is included
with pretty much every computer nowadays
and programs like Norton and McAfee
are becoming less and less important.
Typically the way these, you know, ransomware,
all these things are happening
is you have to download something and then install it.
At the same time, it's sort of on you
to not download Adobe Flash from some random website
and then install it and get hit for ransomware.
- Yes, some of these programs too,
can really slow down your computer
that sometimes can be pretty CPU heavy.
You don't need them.
- You don't need them.
Use the built-in virus protection,
especially Windows now is doing a really good job with that.
- Earlier in this video,
we promised you some suggestions from us, here they are.
The first is to download software directly
from a company's website.
So for example, you want to download Adobe Reader
for your PDFs.
Don't click on some random website.
Go to Google, type it in.
- So you type in something like this,
download Adobe reader.
Hit Enter, read at the top.
Ignore any ads. There aren't any here.
Click on the first one and download it,
and you'll be all set.
If your PC user forget what I just said
and go to ninite.com.
This is the coolest thing ever,
I used to use it all the time.
You could just check all of the programs
that you wanna download,
and it downloads one file
and just installs all of them
with no bloatware or malware or anything.
So it unchecks all the boxes
that you would normally have to check.
And then if you wanna update the programs,
you just run that little installer file again.
Whenever you wanna update, updates automatically.
It's like a miracle for PC users.
You should all be using this.
Amazing software.
- Next, turn on two-factor authentication
as often as you can.
Especially important for passwords
that your using over and over and over again.
- So there's the SMS version of it.
And then there's apps
like Google Authenticator and Authy
where you have to type in a six-digit code.
What I like, especially on Apple products,
is now if you're using an app like Authy,
you can hit a button to copy it from your iPhone,
just paste it onto your Mac.
So it's getting easier to do this
less of a pain in the butt,
but it does make it a lot more secure for people.
- Next up, use Have I Been Pwned?
To see if any of your data has been leaked
in some of these big data breaches.
- Right, so I'll just...
Oh, this is so perfect. - That's good, yeah.
- I just misspelled the stupid website
and ended up on a fake.
Okay, this is amazing.
- Hopefully, you at home,
didn't make that same mistake and then go to this website.
(upbeat music)
- Sounds legit.
- [Alex] Thank you for calling technical support.
You are speaking with Alex.
How may I help you?
- Hi, I was just on a website on my Mac
and I'm noticing that I'm getting some,
you know, security alerts
and I was wondering what I was supposed to do about that.
Have I been pawned?
- It's owned, but with a P instead of an O.
- Oh, that's much easier than I thought it was.
So the first one, have I been pwned?
Check if your email or phone is in a data breach.
Just type in your email address, I'll type in mine.
Oh no.
I've only been pwned in 24 data breaches and 1 paste.
And this is really why I get mad at companies
for saying that it's our fault
because it's not all your fault.
I mean, your password shouldn't be like password123,
but it isn't by this point either.
The takeaway for me is that other countries
don't invest their money and national security budget
into hacking you personally.
So, really, the fault lies with the companies
that leak our data.
And also you can go pretty far
as you just saw in our video and not get hacked.
It only really happens when you install software
and then give them information.
- Russia, for example, they don't wanna hack your MySpace
to kill your FarmVille crops (cow moos)
or from MySpace to Facebook.
What they wanna do is they want to target,
you know, big systems.
That's why they're going after our elections
and our electrical grid.
They don't care what you're doing on Facebook.
In the Fox Business clip,
Kurt, the tech guy, the cyber guy,
says we haven't raised our shields.
- We're not really prepared as Americans.
We haven't really raised our shields, so to speak.
- But to your point, I mean,
we're doing about as much as we can.
It's really on these larger companies to take control.
And one other big issue I had
with this Fox business segment
is they are framing the Nvidia hack,
and the Expeditors hack
is somehow linked to Russia to then scare you
to then have Kurt talk to you as an authority figure
so you go to his website
and read his article about anti-malware software,
which he makes big commissions on.
However, this is directly from Nvidia's website.
We have no evidence of ransomware
being deployed on the Nvidia environment
or that this is related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The whole framing of this story was dishonest.
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- So are you vulnerable to cyber for attacks?
- Probably not.
- Not as vulnerable as Kurt would like you to think.
- Yep. - Yeah.
- Especially if you take the steps in this video
to prepare yourself.
- Thanks for watching.
Yep, Chrome has a built-in key chain too.
There are other ones that are paid.
Zach uses DoorDash, (buzzer buzzes)
aka DashPass. (buzzer buzzes)
DashPass. (buzzer buzzes)
Dashlane. (triumphant music)