The virtual key

The Internet is not a safe place!

It is easy to lock your house door, it is easy to keep your credit card password in the depths of your brain, but when it comes to the Internet, it is not that straight forward. 

There is no one lock you can see on the Internet. Unlike a key to your house door, the key to break most passwords on the Internet is simply the combination to 1s and 0s. 

The worst part of it all is that you won't even know when it is happening, you can be starring at your computer screen while the hacking virus is working it's way to your most secured files. 

After going through Internet security in class today, I realised how easy it is to be hacked...

As a gamer myself, hacking is something I am extremely afraid of. This because the items which you fought so hard to obtain, years and years of hard can be taken away by someone in a split second, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Just yesterday, my brother was Phished by someone. Yes, on steam. Hence, for those using steam often and have a precious account that you never ever want to see gone, please read on.

What happened was, at about 11pm. My brother received a message from person X that person Y wants to trade with him, then proceeded to give him the link to person Y's steam account.

Note that person X is real, he talks and response like a normal human being. He is not computer generated.

The link provided by person X is also very real, it is the kind of link that no one would suspect, because it is like any other link. 

Then my brother went to add person Y, some error occurred and steam asked for him to re-login.

And he did. 

After he logged in, he immediately realised what just happened.

He instantly changed his account password, uninstalled steam and scanned for trojans. 

He was extremely fortunate to have done that as moments later steam detected that someone was trying to log in to his account. 

If anyone were to know how valuable my brother's steam account is that is me. I gave him 80 dollars steam credit for Christmas last year.

Lesson learnt here:

1) Never ever click a link that is given to you on ANY online platform. EVEN IF IT"S YOUR CLOSE FRIEND.

2) Always consult your friend first about the link to confirm that it is not computer generated hack.

3) Always suspect a scam. ALWAYS. When you are asked to log in to anything by anything client, especially when it asks you to re-login

4) As always, keep your password to yourself

Together, we can make the Internet a safer place for all!

Have fun!!

See you all soon!