7 ways to hack you from the TV series "Mr. robot"

The series is about hackers-anti-globalists "Mr. robot" has already received high marks for believability. A fascinating story of a gifted sociopath Elliot her time at the Alderson and his associates may well be used as a security tutorial — writers consulted the specialists and hackers. And if the character uses this scheme to destroy the Corporation, the usual fraud to steal money or use personal data of ordinary people. Such as you and me.

1. Internet from the air

The series opens with a dramatic unmasking scene of a cafe owner, part-owner of the website with illegal content, the existence of which the hero found out by cracking a public Wi-Fi point institution and tracked data enterprising fraudster. Indeed, free Internet in the subway, restaurants and other public places — just a feast for the townspeople. User traffic literally flies in the air, so that people possessing certain skills, it can use it.

And if the hero of "Mr. robot" exposes the criminal, in real life, the danger is rather careless citizens, who make transactions through Internet banking or sending personal data. In this case it is better to wait, even if you really don't want to.

2. "Qwerty" or "Барсик2011"?

In the first series, Elliot is easily hacked email of my psychiatrist: the password consisted of the name of a favorite singer heroine and her year of birth, written backwards — Dylan_2791. And account colleagues was even easier — 12 3456Seven.

Perhaps our clever passwords with important names and dates, not so reliable? Especially if the offender is willing to spend time for search of variants.

The surest way to keep the password in secret — to make it complicated. And change it more often.

3. Don't talk to strangers

The code points to access the accounts of others the main character vyvodyat, posing as a Bank employee and telling the victim that her account was under attack.

Of course, to fully protect itself difficult, but before you transfer your data, ask the caller to introduce themselves and to tell in detail what they needed. We are talking about personal information, and you have every right to know. And passwords to phone just not worth it — the employees of banks and other organizations can only ask a security question if someone is interested in the password — this is definitely a fraud.

4. Digital hygiene

5. "The hospital. The more of them computersyou, the easier it is to break them"

Falsification of data in the hospital is the main character a few minutes: changed the results of the survey in the online medical records and no longer needs to go to rehab.

But the real cheaters could, for example, to steal from the hospital's database passport data of the patient or write a prescription. Frankly, at this point family clinic with their age-old papers don't seem so bad.

6. Keep the notebook close, and even closer

7. Even Wikipedia is not always possible to believe

In General, check the data more than one online and follow the addresses of your favorite sites: all of a sudden it cbrehbank, not a Bank, or vtentakle is a popular social network.

I hope that after reading this text you are a few to get serious about your online security. We advise you to frequently change passwords, update anti-virus software, be careful on the Internet and watch the TV series "Mr. robot" — it is really very exciting. Oh, and don't forget to stick the camera on a laptop! And then who knows what