{"id":1282,"date":"2021-05-17T16:49:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/droix.co.uk\/blogs\/must-read-your-online-security-why-should-you-care-part-1\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:07:12","slug":"must-read-your-online-security-why-should-you-care-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/must-read-your-online-security-why-should-you-care-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read: Your online security - Why should you care? (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I know, you probably thought to dismiss this article just because it may be a way of us selling you something.<br>No, not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">yet<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">This article came to life after I, Cristian had a very interesting encounter with one of our customers (Let's call him customer X) today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">And here is the story:<br>Customer X bought a CK1 from us.<br>Customer X was happy with it.<br>Customer X was trying to find the answer on how to connect an external HDD to the Mini PC on the internet.<br>Customer X found a web page with a \"Support Specialist\" willing to help him.<br>Customer X ended up giving access to his computer to a nefarious individual.<br>Customer X was tenacious.<br>Customer X realised what's happening and quickly disconnected from the Remote Desktop session and fully wiped the device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Honestly, this is a rare occurrence and we're happy to say that Customer X got a fully working device with no issues, and his data is safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Unfortunately, a lot of us are Customer X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/how-recognize-and-avoid-phishing-scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phishing Scams<\/a> have gotten so good recently, that even the most knowledgeable sometimes go and inspect the webpage\/certificate to realise it's a phishing page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">According to the FBI, phishing was the most common type of cybercrime in 2020\u2014and phishing incidents nearly doubled in frequency, from 114,702 incidents in 2019, to 241,324 incidents in 2020.10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Let's say you're having some issues with your PC, and you google the issues you're having. This is what you may be getting<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tech-support-scam-message-box-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tech-support-scam-message-box-2.png\" alt=\"microsoft support scam\" class=\"wp-image-20256\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">(I hope I don't have to mention <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>not to call the above-shown phone number<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">To the naked eye, this is something serious and it may lead you to install some software, then you get a phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Courtesy of Jim Browning, you can see how these people operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to bust a tech support scammer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yGY7UQji2go?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Subscribe to Jim Browning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBNG0osIBAprVcZZ3ic84vw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the phone call, someone thousands of miles away has uninterrupted access to your computer. You may think \"it's just my computer\", but nowadays we do everything on our computers: We keep in touch with our loved ones, we buy the latest gadget, we do online banking and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of that information, at someone else's disposal can be a major threat to your online and personal security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing Scams have gotten so good recently, that even the most knowledgeable sometimes go and inspect the webpage\/certificate to realise it's a phishing page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29],"class_list":{"0":"post-1282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-security"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327000,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/327000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}