Keeping your devices up to date are necessary steps in trying to secure yourself against attacks but as this article will spell it out for you and as the reports in the news in the last little while have said many companies have been breached as well, Target, Adobe, etc. have also been compromised. The numbers in this article are astounding actually and almost hard to swallow but the world is changing at an enormous pace with technology in the hands of many more people every day come opportunities for these hackers to find information and even on how to infiltrate other big companies for more information. Social engineering being one of the newest terms in the hacking world, is when the hackers accumulate information about you through several accounts collecting information bit by bit they eventually collect enough to access things like your bank account or even worse your identity….
Although there’s not much you can do about the security companies like this have there are a few recommendations to take into account, using different passwords for example as if one gets compromised and you use the same one elsewhere then they all can be. The other recommendation to give is to periodically change these passwords as well, might be a bit of an inconvenience but so is sorting out the trouble you could get into if you don’t.