Cyberattacks
5 filmsComing soonHow attackers actually get in: through a flaw in software, a person talked into opening the door, or a program let in by mistake; and what the most damaging of those programs does.
Your phone, your bank app and your work laptop are attacked every day, and nobody has shown you how. One attack and one defence at a time, slowly enough to recognise them, in plain words.
How attackers actually get in: through a flaw in software, a person talked into opening the door, or a program let in by mistake; and what the most damaging of those programs does.
How a website knows it is you: what it keeps of your password, how passwords are stolen, and the second steps, passkeys and password managers that make a stolen password worth less.
How scrambling with a key keeps a message secret, how two strangers agree a key in public, who holds the keys in the apps you use, and the two questions about encryption's future: the spare key governments ask for, and the quantum computer.
What happens when a company holding your data is broken into: how attackers usually get in, what the copied records contain, where they are sold, why you hear months later, and one breach told in full from its official report.
What each defence actually does, and what it does not: updates, backups, app permissions, antivirus, and the AI now used on both sides.