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Human Wrongs Watch By Fernando Velázquez*

27 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* —  Imagine getting endless deliveries that you didn’t order. Imagine a police car pulling into your driveway in the middle of the night, because someone from your mobile number texted and reported a murder or a kidnapping.

Personal data compromised by an online hacker | Image from Wall Street International.

Imagine getting unknown phone calls every hour, blocking your flow of work or a peaceful night of sleep. Imagine strangers calling from around the country and come knocking on your door stalking all the time.

Imagine losing your job because someone sent a hateful and abusive email to your boss and colleagues

Imagine the look of shock on your parents’ faces because they received an email with your passport and ID’s, confessing that you are working for terrorists or for the organized crime.

These aren’t just some possibilities. These are actual nightmares that people live through after their data is compromised by an online hacker.

In the space of one hour, your entire digital life can be destroyed. Your Google account can be taken over, then deleted. Your Twitter account compromised and used to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And your Facebook can suddenly post pedophile pics making you automatically the target number 1 of the FBI.

Details of an Attack

One day in a company I worked for, we decided to invite some hackers and execute an unusual exercise: spend 1 month trying to hack some volunteers, employees from the company, as deeply as they could.

The only conditions were that the hackers signed a contract where they could not steal money or any other assets from them, reveal any private information, or do any harm.

And then, at the end of the hack, we wanted them to tell us what they found, and somehow help us fix any security flaws or vulnerabilities we had. By the way, companies do this all the time and very often nowadays, it is called Penetration Testing.

At the end it doesn’t matter at all, how effective your defenses you think they are or the level of your security knowledge. Against an experienced hacker any kind of defense is pretty useless even if you are a Fortune 500 company. But let’s have some insights of what happened during that hacking experiment.

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*Fernando Velázquez
Fernando Velázquez is a cryptographer, cybersecurity professional, privacy consultant and writer.
He is the author of several articles on general Information Security topics. He is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Shield CyberSpace Boundaries (S.C.B) an organization specialized in Digital Rights Management, Online Privacy, Malware Analysis, Security and Computer Science.
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*SOURCE: Wall Street International. Go to ORIGINAL.

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Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2019/08/30/digital-hell/


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