Red Couch - How the big data revolution has left our personal info exposed to hackers

How the Big Data revolution has left up personal info at the mercy of fraudsters. Welcome to the Red Couch, the show about your Internet freedom and security. You knew that shopping for a packet of coffee in a local supermarket was dangerous didn't you? Didn't you! Well, now we have proof. And later we'll show you how you can protect yourself. US retailer Target: so hackers pick up info that contains pin numbers and credit card numbers for up to 14 million customers. Hackers later picked up data on 70 million target shoppers, this included phone numbers, names and addresses of one in three Americans. A big list credit card numbers at high-end retailer, Neiman Marcus, is also at the mercy fraudsters. The security breach make the NASA's recent data collecting activities look like a jellyfish trying to break into a can of tomato soup. As we recall this the biggest breach into target stator could be due to what's called a round scraper. No it's not a device for shaping the private parts of a sheep. This tool allows cybercriminals to grab encrypted data as it travels to be live memory of a computer where it appears as plain text. This is like your personal information leaves the shower realize that doesn't have a towel and then runs naked through a corridor, which has a window, which has a webcam, which broadcast live to BuzzFeed. The hackers could be from Eastern Europe. One, one flower Two, two flowers Three flowers. Well, what seems to be a preschool learning exercise using a blood-sucking sock is actually a secret code between ex-soviet hackers sharing security breaches into major American retailers. As shops gather more information, hackers get smarter, your personal data is more exposed than ever but this is just the beginning. Remember LinkedIn? Facebook for ugly people. Have an account? Being popular recently? It's not because people want you to keep your job, it's because they want to steal your personal information. Since May 2013 computer programs called bots, have created thousands fake LinkedIn accounts to extract data from your personal profiles. LinkedIn is a mine of information for hackers expert in financial scams identity theft. Hackers can now connect info from your loyalty cards, credit cards and social media to create a precious bundle. This is like leaving your front door open. do your possessions, all your money you ID, your personal diary, lie on the kitchen table for anyone to grab. This is the new reality of globalization. Who you are, what you buy, what you think, are being swept up by a teenager in Moscow's suburbs, looking to find ways of how he can turn the transparency of western lives into cash. How can you protect your data there is only one solution: Never buy anything ever again! The Red Couch is brought to you by CyberGhost5, a virtual private that network gives you anonymity online and allows you to surf the web securely.