Hacked whilst on Holiday

ctid1894 said:
Safest way to use any public WiFi network is with a VPN, it keeps all your traffic encrypted.

If you think you have been hacked the only 100% foolproof way of removing any virus/malware is formatting and rebuilding the device, absolute pain in the arse but there’s no other guaranteed way of doing it. All the AV’s in the world are still susceptible to day 1 viruses or dormant viruses reactivating after a certain timeframe. I’ve done several ethical hacking courses for my job and public WiFi is the perfect place to target anyone and everyone, whether it’s specific or random attacks.

Make sure you’re never using an administrator account to browse the internet or work in general, yes it’s a pain in the arse tapping the password in but it should only be very infrequent activity once the device is configured. Make sure you backup any important data on a regular basis, however long you’re happy to take a risk really, on to an external encrypted hard drive and if it’s that important a second external hard drive as well.

Use a password safe and random generator to create your passwords too (remember to back that up as well, very important), that way you just have to copy and paste passwords and they’re very difficult to brute force/guess if you’ve got important accounts (e.g. online banking). Changing really important account passwords on a regular basis, 10-15 minutes every few months is better than the clean up operation of bank details and money going missing.
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Thanks ctid. The iPad has a password generator built in but how do you remember a very strong password without writing it down?? I think most people tend to have a stock 3-4 passwords to be sure that they don’t get locked out of anything.
 
TueartsOHK said:
If you’re looking for a piss up and you have their premium drinks package then you’ll have a good few days. Food was mediocre and the ship was far too Italian based which obviously effects food choices, entertainment etc. Despite the fact they advertise that English is the first language on their ships it’s not true. Ironically there were very few Brits - I met more Irish and Americans with the vast majority being Italians.
We were on the Musica which is a lovely ship - had everything you’d expect such as casino, gym, about 10 bars. Hope you have a great time
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Cheers for this.

Yeah it is just a bit of a piss up, got it so cheap (£142pp for 4 nights) and the itinerary is actually pretty good too (From Genoa to Majorca with stops at Rome, Sicily and Sardinia). We for sure will be adding on the drinks packages :)
Everything I've read up says they mostly cater for their majority Italian market but its all good, be quite nice not to be surrounded by Brits for a few days. Facilities on our ship look excellent.

Very much looking forward to it.
 
feedthegoat27 said:
Cheers for this.

Yeah it is just a bit of a piss up, got it so cheap (£142pp for 4 nights) and the itinerary is actually pretty good too (From Genoa to Majorca with stops at Rome, Sicily and Sardinia). We for sure will be adding on the drinks packages :)
Everything I've read up says they mostly cater for their majority Italian market but its all good, be quite nice not to be surrounded by Brits for a few days. Facilities on our ship look excellent.

Very much looking forward to it.
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The premium drinks package allows you to spend up to €10 on a single drink. We were on beer midday, cocktails by the pool in the afternoon, beer with dinner and then the wine bar for a few glasses before bed. Needless to say we’ve put on a bit of weight :-)
 
TueartsOHK said:
Thanks ctid. The iPad has a password generator built in but how do you remember a very strong password without writing it down?? I think most people tend to have a stock 3-4 passwords to be sure that they don’t get locked out of anything.
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You don’t have to remember them, if you use even something very basic like KeyPass then it will generate random complex passwords and store them in an encrypted format. If you want to access online banking for example, you open KeyPass with 1 password and then copy and paste the password(s) from there for everything else. I genuinely don’t have a clue what my passwords are, although I could quickly find out if worst came to worst.

Just to add to that, the single and most important one is the email account password that links every account you have. If someone hacks that they can reset your passwords for online shopping sites or whatever very quickly. So that’s an absolute no brainer for 2FA as well as a highly complex password, ideally changing on a monthly basis at minimum.
 
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