A recently posted video on YouTube teaches viewer's how to hack into someone's email account in just 15 minutes.The video showed a group of volunteers follow an online "man in the middle technique" tutorial. It showed them learn in just fifteen minutes how to hack into a computer network. It went on to show them using the technique to obtain each other's login details and passwords.
To date there are an estimated 20,000 videos available on YouTube alone that teach viewers the basics of hacking social media profiles, email accounts, smartphones and PayPal accounts.
A report from the Daily Mail has already speculated that as many as 16 per cent of the British population have had their social networking profiles broken into and a further 10 per cent have suffered financially as a result.
Here's some tips to avoid falling victim to cyber crime.
Users change their password regularly and use more obscure word and letter combinations.
Leave any website that makes overt use of unknown certificates and pop ups.
Avoid sending data over unsecured or public wireless networks.
Always check the security behind free wireless connections.
If using a smartphone disable its auto Wi-Fi connect feature.
