Everyday Hacking Techniques and Important Steps to prevent them

Hacking means, unauthorized access to the information and modification of a system or a network feature.
Some standard hacking techniques are:

Hacking Techniques:

Cookie theft:

Cookies are in the form of text files seen in our system or browser cache. Whenever we visit any website, cookies store personal information like password credentials or financial data. Cookies may be in the form of text or encrypted. After stealing the data, cookies are decrypted to read the information.

Denial of Service:

A technique that is used to down the network by overloading with login attempts or any other tasks. Systems that are attacked because of malware are used to attack through DOS. This is the most common thing. 

Malware: 

When it comes to malware, it is a great malicious software for hackers. Virus, worms, trojans all these can cause harm to our system and attack if we allow them.

Phishing: 

Phishing is another type of hacking technique. Here in this technique, hackers may send emails or links to the users. If the user clicks and uses those emails, then our system gets hacked. 

Introduction to Data Security:

Protecting our digital data like databases from unauthorized users or hackers is called data security. Usually, we use an encryption procedure to secure the data. We can also secure it by not giving read and write access to data. Hardware-based security protection like security tokens(two-factor authentication ) also prevents attacks. We use backups for recovering lost data. That is the reason why we should maintain backup always. There is an attack called SQL attack. Where the SQL commands are injected to make the changes in the database by inserting malicious code into the original one. 

How Cyber-Attacks Occur in the Real World 

Cyber attacks are caused because hackers steal the data that is stored in the system or network. Many cyberattacks are due to the opportunity that we give to them. Like, allowing them to make the changes in the code we write. They can also access the code and install malware. In the targeted cyber-attack, a particular organization is targeted and it is attacked to steal all the sensitive information from the organization. 

Protecting Yourself from Data Breaches 

Always remember to set a strong password to your accounts to avoid hacking. Do not use your name and date of birth combinations. Anyone can easily guess it. Use a mix of characters, numbers, upper and lowercase letters to set a strong password.  

Be careful with phishing scams. Where phishing scams use fraudulent emails or websites which look very similar to the original ones. That can hack user’s private accounts or login credentials. So, to avoid this, do not open any links that you see on the internet with which you are not familiar. 

Personal information should be kept very private. Hackers may use your social media accounts to get your passwords or your personal information. Hence, they can easily answer your security questions. Your privacy settings should be always locked in any account. Do not accept requests from unknown people on social media. 

When it comes to WIFI, again you can use a strong password to make home WIFI’s secured. While you are using any public WIFI, be careful while giving information from unknown sources or links. 

Online shopping is becoming very popular all over the world. So, while shopping is cautious. Check whether they are using a secured protocol which is HTTP in the website link you open. When you are checking out from the online shopping sites to paycheck if there is a small locked padlock symbol on the top of the page before the link. That means the connection is not secured. 

Keep updating your devices. Using the updated software can avoid viruses, threats, or malware. And also keep updating operating systems, browsers. To keep the track of new updates, switch on automatic updates on your devices. 

Conclusion: Stay Safe Online and Out from Behind Your Monitor 

Use the internet only when it is required and save our planet, follow all the steps to avoid hacking and save our country from hackers.