Avoid social engineering

hi everyone this month I want to challenge people to be a little bit more diligent with cyber security I realize that sounds like a big technical term but all you have to do is just educate yourself on a little bit of awareness and just that tiny bit of awareness can save you a world of headache I'll give you a good example does anyone remember back in 2014 when allegedly North Korea hacked Sony it was a big international incident there's a lot of evidence that it probably was not North Korea but that's not the point here how did they do it they did something called social engineering so 80% of all hacking is social engineering that means instead of hacking a computer or a phone or some type of Technology they hack the person because it's much easier to hack a person than it is to hack a computer or a piece of technology so most of the hacking is manipulating people into doing something you want and that's exactly what happened at Sony um years later John McAfee as in McAfee Antivirus that McAfee he went on Varney and Company on falk's business and showed him exactly how it's done he called Varney's phone and vanney let it go straight to voicemail and he didn't even have to pick up the phone and John McAfee sent a little code to his phone line which did all he needed to do now he could call him right back now that he had inserted his code and and he made it look like he was calling from Fox News business and he did it all from his cell phone so so that's that's exactly how that Sony hack was done they called and pretended to be Sony's it department and they asked for confirmation of their password and the person just gave their password over the phone if you don't know how silly that is you need to know how silly that is you don't give your password ever to anyone over the phone no matter who they say they are so that's just one piece and and to sort of prove that this is real technology that this is exactly how the hack was done despite what a lot of the pundits report um something happened to me back in October I got a phone call on my cell phone from a number in China I've recognize the country code AS China I didn't pick it up I let it go to voicemail and as soon as the voicemail ended I got a text message from TMobile saying thank you for your account changes I was like so I had to call T-Mobile customer service and sort of uh figure out what what happened and they couldn't figure it out and I found out later by looking on my account online that what they had done at that moment is disabled my spam blocker because T-Mobile has a Spam blocker they disabled it uh by sending a signal to to my voicemail um and it looked like in their system it looked like it was done at one of the T-Mobile stores but it wasn't it was done from China so this this is just one tiny tiny lesson about not letting people fool you so easily I know you can't prevent that technical hack but what I'm saying is the more you learn about how people manipulate you the better you'll be so I'll be putting out videos over the next few weeks teaching people little tiny tricks about social engineering and what to avoid thanks all stay safe why ha you