Some of the worst hacks of all time and they’ve all been in the headlines within the last couple of years, just goes to show you how much the frontier is changing. The question people need to start asking themselves, is if big companies are getting hit like this then how secure am I? The answer is, it depends on you. Sure the equipment you bought and use has a bit to do with it, as a router from 15 or more years ago isn’t as secure as the one on the store shelf today. The biggest problem at home and at work is the user sitting behind the computer.
Your company could lock down the entire network, have anti-virus, firewall all in place but something as simple as an employee using a personal USB stick to transfer data could cause it to all come crumbling down with malware or some other type of infection. It doesn’t stop there if they don’t know better they might open an email that they shouldn’t have, regardless of all the bells and whistles sounding off the red flag, some people just don’t know better. It gets even worse at home as you don’t have a tech department so it all boils down to what you’ve set up. Hopefully you didn’t just plug in the router and say great the internet is working. There are important things to know here and it could cost you if you don’t. Sadly just being connected to the internet leaves you exposed and there are no 100{463c70c279fb908728b910a090d44fbe4ae7aabcd875de9c1a518a8c8e2be8bd} guarantees. The more difficult you make it though, means they might just give up on you and move on to that neighbour that wasn’t as proactive.
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