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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 725728">I use the term &#039;hacked&#039; because it&#039;s a generalized term. I introduced him to Sticky Password two years ago, which he has been using since, but I did an audit on everything after this incident and found a LOT of the passwords in his password manager were identical. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite132" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure&nbsp; &nbsp; :unsure:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":unsure:" /> So education on password hygiene was in order.Here&#039;s the cool part.. 8 days before he was &#039;hacked&#039;, I said to him &quot;Russian&#039;s are trying to breach you.&quot;. He blew me off with the normal teen &#039;yeah yeah yeah, whatever&#039; response. Exactly 8 days after my warning he started to get breached. His accounts started tumbling, one by one. The best part was when they used his phone hotspot to try and MITM my network, obviously unaware of my Rogue AP Detection/Suppression systems. The reason I knew over a week in advance was I have a SIEM on my network and L7 monitoring tools, I can usually see what someone is doing the second they start doing it, but rarely longer than a few hours before it&#039;s caught.Then on the 10th day, my son &#039;unfriended&#039; me in Origin and I said &#039;Well, they got your Origin account now&#039;.. LOL I asked if he was &#039;ready&#039; for me to take over, he agreed, and within an hour everything was rolled back, recovered, locked down, and there may or may not have been a counter offensive launched. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite122" alt=":censored:" title="Censored&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":censored:" />He knows the risk at our home. Cyber Awareness has to be a bit higher than the average joe home or you WILL get hit. All of this taught him some good lessons, and caused him to become much more security aware. VoodooShield helps increase his awareness of what he is doing, and he likes it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 725728"] I use the term 'hacked' because it's a generalized term. I introduced him to Sticky Password two years ago, which he has been using since, but I did an audit on everything after this incident and found a LOT of the passwords in his password manager were identical. :unsure: So education on password hygiene was in order. Here's the cool part.. 8 days before he was 'hacked', I said to him "Russian's are trying to breach you.". He blew me off with the normal teen 'yeah yeah yeah, whatever' response. Exactly 8 days after my warning he started to get breached. His accounts started tumbling, one by one. The best part was when they used his phone hotspot to try and MITM my network, obviously unaware of my Rogue AP Detection/Suppression systems. The reason I knew over a week in advance was I have a SIEM on my network and L7 monitoring tools, I can usually see what someone is doing the second they start doing it, but rarely longer than a few hours before it's caught. Then on the 10th day, my son 'unfriended' me in Origin and I said 'Well, they got your Origin account now'.. LOL I asked if he was 'ready' for me to take over, he agreed, and within an hour everything was rolled back, recovered, locked down, and there may or may not have been a counter offensive launched. :censored: He knows the risk at our home. Cyber Awareness has to be a bit higher than the average joe home or you WILL get hit. All of this taught him some good lessons, and caused him to become much more security aware. VoodooShield helps increase his awareness of what he is doing, and he likes it. [/QUOTE]

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