How Hackers Think
Forget the Hollywood stereotype of hackers. Hackers actually succeed by exploiting human psychology and finding the path of least resistance. This video explores how attackers use reconnaissance and social engineering to target human behavior rather than just technology. ✏️ Course created by @GavinLon ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp Chapters 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:05 - Thinking Like Water 00:03:19 - The Human Operating System - Social Engineering 00:02:47 - Phishing 00:05:37 - The Art of Reconnaissance 00:06:17 - Vulnerabilities 00:07:15 - Supply Chain Attack 00:07:56 - Well-known Actual Attacks 00:08:03 - The Target Isn’t Always the Target - The 2013 Cyber Attack on Retailer, Target 00:08:27 - The 2017 Wannacry Ransomware Outbreak 00:09:01 - The 2021 Colonial Pipeline Attack 00:09:38 - The Mindset 00:10:47 - The Quantum Challenge 00:11:22 - Post Quantum Cryptography 00:11:43 - Conclusion 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 @omerhattapoglu1158 👾 @goddardtan 👾 @akihayashi6629 👾 @kikilogsin 👾 @anthonycampbell2148 👾 @tobymiller7790 👾 @rajibdassharma497 👾 @CloudVirtualizationEnthusiast 👾 @adilsoncarlosvianacarlos 👾 @martinmacchia1564 👾 @ulisesmoralez4160 👾 @_Oscar_ 👾 @jedi-or-sith2728 👾 @justinhual1290 -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news
