The Power of Social Engineering

In this Youtube video you will see how a skilled hacker can exploit our social vulnerabilities and tap into our human system to reveal sensitive information and infiltrate our digital life.

Cellular Networks SS7 Design Flaws Exploited to Hack Facebook Logins

The Short Story

In short, your Facebook account, and most probably other accounts (Google, Twitter, etc…) can be hacked, no matter how strong and complex your password is.

Beware from Social Engineering Two-Factor Authentication

Various tech giants data breaches were reported lately, with millions of accounts passwords and information being leaked (ex: Twitter, LinkedIn, Email Service Giants, etc…) as if this is not bad news already, hackers are now using those leaked information to target accounts with enabled Two-Factor authentication (2FA) where activated.

Tracked by Chrome Extensions

So what’s going on? briefly, if you use Google Chrome as your main browser and extend its functionality with some of its many available extensions then you might be susceptible to behavioral tracking.

Vulnerable LastPass – Vault Cracked

Memorizing an N number of passwords (N representing your different passwords) proved to be a burden and hectic task to achieve. This fact is one of the biggest reasons behind the fact that many of us today uses some sort of a password vault software, locally on their machine or cloud based, to store and secure our long list of credentials to our digital life.