hello and welcome back to the cyber security awareness course
in this video we're going to take some cyber security facts that most people don't know about
beginning by the first fact about malwares now I'm sure that most of you are not familiar
with malwares but we're going to stick with this definition malwares are computer programs or bad
computer programs that affect your data spy on it delete it modify it alter it sometimes encrypting
it not allowing you to use them now those malwares they can be injected with anything they can
be injected with an image they can be injected with a pdf file a video or any other extension
now the fact about malwares is that they rank as the costliest form of cyber attack for
organizations this means that organizations suffer most from malwares now the second cyber security
fact is passwords 80 of hacking breaches involve stolen passwords or credentials now this is pretty
critical because most people don't know how to put a strong password or sometimes they just end up
giving away their password the third one is about hacking itself there is a hacking attack every 39
seconds so as we're speaking right now there is a hacking happening somewhere in the world
the fourth cyber security fact is about cyber attacks 65% of small businesses fail to
act following a cybersecurity incident and this goes because of the lack of awareness and because
those small businesses are not able to act against cyber incidents the fifth one is about firewalls
73 % of hackers say that traditional firewalls are irrelevant or obsolete now this is pretty
critical because we all have firewalls in our houses on our computers we all have firewalls
on our servers if we are IT people but hackers what they say is that 73% of traditional firewalls
for example windows firewall it is irrelevant meaning that they can easily breach it and access
your devices the last one is about awareness itself 95% of cyber attacks are due to the lack
of cyber security awareness and this shows how critical and important cyber security awareness is
now we're going to take a look at this diagram which represents breached websites so in the
year 2016 a total of 2 million records meaning a total of 2 million accounts on different
websites were breached and they were just shown to the public meaning that I as an end user can
go to google for example and type an account and I can view its password in the year 2017
seven million records were breached and we can see as the number increases from 2018 to 2020
as it is 980 records in 2020. now on the left side the total websites that were breached in 2020
were actually 45% websites of the world and those are the reasons 45 percent were hacked because of
scamming 30 percent were hacked because of bad web applications and malicious web applications
10 percent were because of weak passwords when for example you have a WordPress website
and if you want to access your website you would simply just go to the admin control panel if you
have a weak password then you will be hacked and ten percent of the people that were hacked or the
websites that were breached were because of weak passwords six percent were because of malwares
five percent were because of human errors and four percent
were because of an unknown reason meaning that security experts and cyber security inspectors
they weren't able to identify the cause of this attack or the cause of this breach now
this is pretty scary for the first time to read all these information and to know all these
facts but then again I would say it if you keep yourself secure then you will have a less chance
of getting hacked this is it for this video I hope you liked it and I'll see you in the next video