Cyber Security Stories: Because of You!

Explore bitcoin's origin as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system with no central authority and its real-world uses, anonymity, and the rise of ransomwares.

Explore the Wannacry ransomware attack, its impact on more than 100,000 computers across 150 countries, and the roles of black hat, grey hat, and white hat hackers.

Explore virus types such as viruses, worms, botnets, adware, ransomware, RATs, and keyloggers, and they replicate and corrupt data. Learn antivirus limits against evolving malware like Wannacry and scareware.

Learn how scareware and rogue antivirus software spread through drive-by downloads that exploit browser vulnerabilities, display fake virus warnings, and coerce users to buy, as illustrated by Game Over Zeus.

Explore drive-by downloads that exploit browser vulnerabilities to deliver malware turning computers into zombie bots. Game Over Zeus turns infected PCs into a hydra-like C&C botnet that steals banking credentials.

Strengthen and manage passwords by creating unique, unpredictable long passwords or passphrases; defend against breaches, credential stuffing, and phishing, and enable two-factor authentication, avoiding reuse.

Learn how viruses damage digital data like photos and documents, and how worms self-replicate to infect multiple devices on the same network by exploiting vulnerabilities.

Learn how human error creates vulnerabilities and how exploits breach security, with cve ids, a patch, and white hat versus black hat hackers, illustrated by Wannacry and Eternal Blue.