[video] Targeted Attacks: How Your Friends And Family Access Your Phone

‘Targeted Attacks’
In this video, I walk us through ’targeted attacks’, and gives us some simple and practical tips on how to protect ourselves from them.

Topics addressed in this video include:

• High risk profiles targeted by hackers (different techniques e.g. exploits, zero days, numerical weapons) vs
• Low risk profiles targeted by the people around you (friends and family) through social engineering attacks
• Spy app: an unexpected example is a parental control app

Main tips mentioned to protect yourself include:

• Update your phone
• Apple better than Android. And if you go for Android, use a Google phone
• Don’t install any weird app, limit the number of apps you install on your phone
• Don’t have a smartphone
• Use a VPN all the time
• You can have two identities, two phone numbers
• Put a passphrase
• Use automatic lock in on your phone
• Enable biometric access (fingerprint/faceID). Use Face ID only on Apple
• Don’t lend your phone to anybody