v the first filipino american t v talk show in the new york metro area get to know us as we talk to the community leaders innovators advocates and emerging artists who  my name's christine up a store welcome to another lightning discussion if there is one thing that strikes fear into the hearts of people it is probably hacking or having their own line online identities stolen it could be facebook email our bank accounts we've all heard the harrowing stories of how one went from the police to the banks to the countless local agencies just to restore their identit regina where so many hats i b m senior technical staff member i b m certified senior i t specialist and the open group distinguished i t specialist what that means simply  assesses security vulnerability and prevents clients from being hacked she is why the way one of very few top executives at i b m who is filipino american grace is joining us from the point of view of a victim not a passive victim but a feisty one who fought a o l after her e mail account was compromised welcome ladies grace can you walk us through the time when you were out shopping with your son and you got an alert on your not so right there and then i told them please do not allow that transaction goes through because it's not me we just send something anything and they just send something for body yes so they to my bank and called all my credit card company us about what happened so that's rather stressed full and hard to get him started so i went to i called my bank saying what happened i was hot they took money from my bank account and they asked me to file a police report right yes because as like a specific amount or an over certain amount a certain amount for a few hours i was able to fix it so virginia what happened to greece is that common very common than we know or we think it is i mean fundamentally if you think about it almost every aspect of our ally revolves companies store our names our addresses and our birth a little sick numbers so we really have to hold them accountable to they're collecting and analyzing all this data right we have to hold them accountable sophisticated so one of the things as a security professionals that we're taught we're taught is everything we do we must have a security mindset just from a private citizen perspective and security professional and that's not something that comes easily for a lot of people so for instance or as an engineer i'm trained to think how we make things so that they work as having a secure mindset and think of it from a both a private citizen perspective you have to services i've actually caught somebody stealing my identity back when i was in college and i was like why is my score so low compared to like other people you know and then i realized i looked at my credit report and  i saw that a credit card was taken out in indiana as i said in your name in miami everything was the same except that address and that's becoming a common type of identity theft is children's credit report our credit social security numbers are stolen to create an identity so as adults we know to monitor their online banking but imagine someone stealing a child social security number years later you find you're in a financial cliff because of all this that not or and how do you transmit their social security number at the crux of it is really how are these organizations the government credit card companies are storing in the day the is no way to circumvent that we are placing a lot of trust in them to do there are so many things that we have you think maybe a younger generation will have a better chance of getting the validate that the user is in fact who they are by providing two pieces or more of evidences in an authentication mechanism before they can access that site or you know make a purchase and i think that's being instilled  to talk about the secure mindset that's being instilled in the younger generation and perhaps they don't even know it right when you're logging in certain websites right now you have to not only provide your password but there's a is the good news so always do keep who is doing all the hacking anyone that wants the opportunity to still identity for financial gain that's always the root cause is that it's for financial gains and some touched on senior citizens they are they're not monitoring their credit and that's regularly they don't know the science of fishing and they have higher savings so it's a good target so we also i think as a community need to   responsible because i do it myself when we go on vacation it's very were posted all these photos on a vacation but hey make sure you know each and every single one of your connections because they know you're not home right next to an opportunity for them to you should not say where you are i think that we just need to know one of the first things is do we know who all our connections are perhaps sometimes we don't and i know that's challenging in this day and age you all want to be connected right so perhaps and then now it's another idea not only that i was talking through my friend and i even online i was just having a conversation and now logged in and also and i feel like the first thing that showed up that's related to what we were talking about ransom e mails generally i am in the in haiti enjoying the sights and the sun and then i lost my wallet can you send me this much i'm on how do you course we i was  hijack some of your files and this was a wanna cry last year because that's what that threatened vulnerability did was in hijack of the all the files in your devise and told you and asked you for some specific sum of money otherwise they would delete all your all your files and that was very devastating to one of the bigger entity impacted was a hospital in u k imagine losing all their patient we have to bring the technology into to support the digital world where all our data is out there it is like education because even in my organization they constantly tell us of some examples of what to do what not to do which is not clicking on any suspicious hyperlinks or even just hovering over from address to see what type of addresses it is it really from the over how often you change your past they recommend that possibly change your past yes i do change my passwords across all my comes by quarter but one of the things that you know again if we have one of these password generators or password ball it generates a string of password sixteen character perhaps or a character and it's really random so how does it work i just copy and paste from the vault put it into the yes and that's it for the volume of the software  not built up to the standards for to kind of to use some of the encryption methods that we are implementing now websites and even the hardware on the hardware end of it so how often do you have to change your computer or do you have to install some five years you should have a new computer it's more about the minutes and upkeep of a viewer system i think most retail stores so i think we're getting all paranoid but in most people's stories since start what happened to target be changed the way they still wanted their credit about data encryption in transit as it's coming from that physical location decryption at rest while it's stored in a database there's a crucial level there so we're getting smarter about it right but then how long have you actually less to do three years curating your data of a become more protective of my data as of late but you know a use facebook is for them just like many folks but now i'm just a bit more selective of what i put out there because  my data selective like selective your photos or the information that both of my photos when i'm doing that kind of information because it's my data and i want to make sure i control what gets out there for to the consumption of people i may not know and or frequency i guess yes and also so today i'm going to get all my passwords and i'm going to make sure that i clear my browser and thanks for being on the show ladies unfortunately we need to wind down to a very informative discussion you know what they say about having your identities stolen is no different from having your house burglarized it invasive and stressful and embarrassing and just plain scary thank you virgin young greece for your expertise and experience and to our viewers be mindful of what you share online because it can be used many different ways you everyone and before we close i would like to wish