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How Hackers Steal Your ID

BBC 1 Series 1 Episode 1
First broadcast 9th November 2015, 20:30
Duration: 29:04
Hackers have stolen the personal details of millions of customers from companies. How do cybercriminals get hold of our data? Reporter Daniel Foggo investigates.

Clips from this programme

Opening Titles and Introduction: Hackers stealing your information

Duration: 01:05

How Hackers Steal your ID: online sensitive information (TalkTalk): Daniel Foggo. Big Company hacks such as Sony and JP Morgan (Dr David Day, Cyber security consultant) (Professor Alan Woodward, University of Surrey)

Duration: 01:50

Cyber criminals & TalkTalk, Hackers' motivations: (Lauri Love, a wanted man (US treasury and Federal Reserve)), ease of access to vulnerabilities (e.g. TalkTalk and calls from fake employees)

Duration: 04:58

Trusting internet companies with our secure data online. Hacker's demonstration (Jennifer Arcuri, Leigh Brayshaw, Mustafa Al-Bassam). The Cyber Academy at the school of computing, Edinburgh Napier University challenge-Password of the website administrator leads to total control of a whole site within minutes. Mustafa Al-Bassam: Suspended sentence for CIA web attack, now one of the good guys

Duration: 04:41

Cyber Crime: Dodgy emails and malicious code/malware (James Lyne, Global Head of Security Research, Sophos), competing cyber crime products, 30,000 websites infected per day, money theft, Commissioner, City of London Police (Adrian Leppard)

Duration: 04:17

Cyber Crime: The Dark Web: Stolen Data bought & sold by Bit Coins (Cal Leeming from prison to software engineer)

Duration: 02:55

Cyber Crime: The Dark Web: James Lyne, Global Head of Security Research, Sophos demonstrates the ease of stealing credit card details, then a whole identity theft

Duration: 02:05

Cyber Crime: Protecting yourself with Security software, different passwords for each site accessed, keep your computer updated, be careful what you click on. Yasser Ali, a 'white hat hacker': PayPal etc vulnerability

Duration: 04:00

Cyber Crime: Companies coming clean when breached (e.g. TalkTalk), trust in the internet

Duration: 02:43

End Titles & Credits

Duration: 00:28

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Hackers have stolen the personal details of millions of customers from companies. How do cybercriminals get hold of our data? Reporter Daniel Foggo investigates.

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