October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, and Tulsa Tech Cyber Security students taught other students how to protect themselves from various forms of hacking.
Halloween decorations were everywhere in the airplane hangar at Tulsa Tech’s Riverside campus, but that wasn’t the only scary thing students saw.
“We’re going to have a hack house tonight and talk about typosquatting. That’s our presentation,” said student Eduardo Gomez.
Under the Spider’s Web, students understood a potentially confusing topic.
“It’s basically like accidentally misspelling a link or a word in a link, and you’re being misdirected to a very malicious site that basically takes away all your information and credentials. It gets stolen,” Gomez said.
As students listened to each presentation, they learned about different types of hacking, possible dangers, and how to stay safe.
“It’s just a Cash App card. Now everyone has a Cash App. It’s over,” student Nicholas Graham said during a card skimming demonstration. “It’s very, very quick and very, very easy. That’s all you need to do. It’s got your card number on there,” he said.
Mr. Graham and his team taught their classmates how easily their banking information can be stolen. “One thing to be aware of is fake pin pads. There are so many of them. Unfortunately, I’ve seen them before. If it moves, don’t use it,” Graham said. .
Tips from students to make sure there’s only bounts, not hacks, this Halloween.
Hack House is open to the public to check out the various booths and learn more about other cybersecurity attacks on Thursday, October 24th from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
