The complete guide to not getting hacked!

Great guide, mainly common sense but surely helpful to someone.
Never heard about Swiftkit being hacked, been using it forever.
When'd it happen?

A month ago I think? Someone got into it and made it request to run a JDB when people logged on.

Nice guide, but I have a few questions.

You say keep your RSN hidden, but if someone sees you in ge looking rich could they just hack you by seeing you in ge?

I know the admins get our ip when we go on forums, and I trust them with this, but could just normal forum members find out our ip address?

I basically go on minecraft, rs, youtube, and twitch (to watch rs/mc livestreams) I only watch famous youtubers and for livestreams I watch popular ones such as Mx799, sm hosts, and my friend. Could they get my ip, also could youtube people get my ip?

Thanks

NT1 wrote:Nice guide, but I have a few questions.

You say keep your RSN hidden, but if someone sees you in ge looking rich could they just hack you by seeing you in ge?

I know the admins get our ip when we go on forums, and I trust them with this, but could just normal forum members find out our ip address?

I basically go on minecraft, rs, youtube, and twitch (to watch rs/mc livestreams) I only watch famous youtubers and for livestreams I watch popular ones such as Mx799, sm hosts, and my friend. Could they get my ip, also could youtube people get my ip?

Thanks

Minecraft, twitch yes. RS and youtube are safe however.
Just avoid suspicious links.
I think my RSN hidden he meant your login name, if it differs that is.

If they find your RSN and decide that you're a target, they can't just see you and you're hacked. They Dox you and use that information to recover your account. They pretty much will never hack an active account as it complicates things and makes it where you can get their IP.

Only way a normal forum member could get your IP from the forums there selves is if they somehow got into the forums Database.

Neither people could get your IP from Twitch or Youtube unless they somehow got access to the Databases. Which is just nigh of impossible as both are extremely popular and secure.

And I mean RSN because they can use something such as Pipl to search your name and find things related to it. Such as emails, facebook (where they get the most information usually), etc.

Evilrat wrote:If they find your RSN and decide that you're a target, they can't just see you and you're hacked. They Dox you and use that information to recover your account. They pretty much will never hack an active account as it complicates things and makes it where you can get their IP.

Only way a normal forum member could get your IP from the forums there selves is if they somehow got into the forums Database.

Neither people could get your IP from Twitch or Youtube unless they somehow got access to the Databases. Which is just nigh of impossible as both are extremely popular and secure.

And I mean RSN because they can use something such as Pipl to search your name and find things related to it. Such as emails, facebook (where they get the most information usually), etc.

Actually Twitch isn't exactly safe, been proven on me via Diablo 3 way too many times this month <.<
Lost two hardcore characters

Just watching streams on Twitch doesn't make it bad, flaunting around and making yourself a target and/or streaming itself can be bad.

I'm not saying it's bad.
I've never streamed, all I did was chat on a popular stream.
Had an argument with someone and got ddosed 5 minutes later.

Extremely hard to believe. Also, this guy must've gotten you IP someway else or a possible coincidence. Mehhh, you never know.

I doubt every other skid is capable of getting it via Twitch unless you're streaming but it's definitely possible.

Good guide but could be misleading to someone who isn't completely knowledgeable in this topic. Mainly because you stated that "Only trust RS login pages that have this in the Address bar. It will always have the protocol, https:// instead of http:// This is simply a more secure version." Which in theory you are right but like I said to someone who has no clue about this and they get for example an email that is truly a phishing website it looks almost real. I have taken a few pictures of the ones I have in my email right now. I normally get 2-3 of these every two days.
I would recommend you include something about fake emails from "Jagex Ltd" and "Runescape" that are sent around alot saying some bs about your account is in the danger zone or has gotten an infraction like the picture below are 2 examples.


Example of Fake Emails that look 100% Real.

Spoiler:

Inside of the first one that is identically to what Jagex really sends to you if you have an infraction. But the highlighted parts are the important things to look at
Yellow= The exact same link you would get from Jagex yet again if this was a real infraction on your account
Red= The part where you can tell the difference between a fake and a real infraction ahhh a sigh of relief the moment you've been waiting for. If you look closely at the box in red it is not the same address as the box in yellow and that's bad. it should be the same. The way to tell if you didnt know was hover your mouse over the link but dont click it. try it on www.google.com if you did it right on the bottom left corner you should see the exact same address as what it says.
Hackers do everything they can to fool you but this is one thing they have yet to figure out how to change (they cant) and the only way to tell if this email is real or not is by what I just explained to you.

Spoiler:

Here is the second Email that I received the highlights are the exact same as the above in case you wanted to see another example.

Spoiler:

But overall good guide Evil if you would like you could copy and paste this in your guide if you feel it guide worthy otherwise you can take what you want out of it. Just trying to help people avoid being unnecessarily hacked.


+rep if it helped.

Add to that getting a good INTERNET SECURITY, yes because it helps to protecting your online safety, like it warns you if there is an expectation or something.

Or we can all just be insane security freaks and close all cookie sources set to be accepted from my browser, except for SM and RS.

Really, hacking can't be completely prevented, no matter how much you educate children: a lot of knowledge requires maturity.

Another great topic you should include in this discussion is actually quite primary.

The use of the RS forums as a tip off on how to help computer security, and white-hatting in general.

And at that, expect a large update to this thread soon.

How about going into DDoS a bit more - I'm sure a lot of people don't know about the various ways one can access an IP, e.g. Skype.

Inomonu wrote:How about going into DDoS a bit more - I'm sure a lot of people don't know about the various ways one can access an IP, e.g. Skype.

^ This, and how plenty of information is publicly available via Dox, with less than 30$ a year; you can essentially access an unlimited number of people's personal information, from full name - to legal records, like criminal history and birth certificates.

Evilrat wrote:And at that, expect a large update to this thread soon.

Thanks for the updates, even though most of it is common sense, it's great to see someone willing to help the community.

I +repped this post, even though my reputation is at +1, haha.