Comment on can a hacker hack my accounts remotely??
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Technically it is possible yes but this question is both too specific and too vague to give a proper answer i feel.
A hacker could be exploiting security vulnerabilities in the software/website or employing phishing techniques to trick you into giving access. This way they don’t need a password or virus.
Its also possible that a chunk of your account data got leaked and they have that data rather then full access.
Is there more context to this story?
01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
yes, there is more context. the original post was talking about services i use, for example, if i used facebook and my browser didn’t delete cookies or history, can it give access to hackers to my account??
Cralder@feddit.nu 7 months ago
History and cookies are not generally a security vulnerability. Cookies can be a vulnerability but only if the hacker gets access to your device somehow, either by stealing it or through a virus for example. You don’t really have to worry about cookies or history for security reasons, only privacy reasons.
kambusha@feddit.ch 7 months ago
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is usually a good thing to enable in order to make it more difficult for an unauthorised person to login to your account remotely, as they will need that second authentication to be able to login.
Unless someone has access to your computer, then cookies & history don’t really matter. However, if you login to facebook, and then leave your computer open for 10mins, someone could open up facebook again and you would likely still be logged in. If that’s a scenario you’re worried about, then you could erase all your browsing session data to ensure that you’re effectively logged out everywhere.
01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ok thank you very much!!