After the evaluation TEST (December 2023/January 2024) of previous subscribers, we are starting the 2024 Security Tips (TIPS).
As you know, these weekly communications are part of your organization’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Training Plan. So, throughout this year you will receive training pills, related in 2024, with the different types of cyber-attacks that we can suffer. Both on a personal and professional level.
In addition to each cyber-attack explained, we will give you some brief recommendations on how to prevent becoming victims of this type of incidents and frauds.
In today’s TIP we will start by explaining the difference between “Cybercriminal” and “Hacker”. Two concepts that you will hear more and more frequently in the media and which will be mentioned in many of the TIPS.
- Cybercriminal (the “bad guy”): It can be a criminal who uses new technologies to commit other crimes (e.g. drug trafficking on the Internet), a fraudster to commit fraud (e.g. fake promotions) or any other criminal who tries to damage the computer systems of users and organizations, whether he makes a profit from it (information trafficking or blackmail money) or not (amateurs who test their knowledge in a real environment).
- Hacker (the “good” one): Although we are used to confuse them and some media still do, nowadays, the term “Hacker” is more associated to a Cybersecurity expert or Auditor, who tries to inform, solve or extract evidence related to the security status of an Organization or to a cyber-attack that has already occurred. And this can be done both at the level of testing computer systems, as well as through simulations launched to the Users that allow to extract results to improve in Cybersecurity. What we know as “social engineering”, which we will see what it means, in a corresponding 2024 TIP.
* Definitions adopted by official cybersecurity organizations and institutions such as INCIBE and equivalent.