Hackers need your help first to succeed

Many of you may surprise to hear this but in most cyber security incidents it has been found that they succeeded because victims have helped them first. Today I am going to explain how a user may help cyber criminals.

Awareness: Social Engineering attacks are one example where attacker successfully executes attacks and      victim couldn’t prevent it because of lack of awareness of latest attack trends and their countermeasures.   Today knowledge should not limit to using a system; we all need to update our self with the latest security trends and must be aware how to use a system securely. 

Ignorance:  It is being said that “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance” and attackers work on same principle to come inside your trusted boundary. Let me explain with one example, it is advisable that user should change their passwords after certain period of time. How many of us are following this? Similarly there are few set of guidelines that one should follow while using this sophisticated system.

Rely: It’s a human nature that we usually rely on someone very easily who care for us or who think about us and most of the times we judge people in day to day interactions but in an Internet platform these classic judgments methodology are one of the soft and useful weapon of cyber criminals. Phishing attack is one example which is executed by using two common human behaviors- Rely and Ignorance. Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are trap.  

Finally, I would like to say that Awareness is not expensive so do not try Ignorance and must Rely on acquisition of knowledge.