节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-11-09
难易度:High
关键字:hack, traumatic, salvage, malicious, malware
Hi, friends. Thanks for joining us here today at StudioClassroom.com.
My name is Steve.
Happy you've joined us today.
This month's TECHNOLOGY feature focuses on something I hope never happens to any
of you, but I know it has already happened to some of you.
And the reason for this feature is because I know it will happen to others of
you in the future.
Yes, I'm talking about getting hacked.
Now when a hacker breaks into your computer, he or she can create all kinds of
trouble, and not just for you, but for the people you know too.
So what do you do if you've been hacked?
Let's find out as we open our magazines to page 22.
(Music).
Hacked!
Quick and easy tips for dealing with a hacked account.
It might have happened because you downloaded malware.
Then again, it might be because you stopped using your email or social
networking account but didn't shut it down.
Whatever the cause, you've just discovered your account has been sending
advertisements and junk mail to all of your contacts for days.
You've been hacked!
Discovering you've been hacked is a traumatic experience, and it can be hard to
figure out what to do next.
Fortunately, regaining control of your online accounts isn't as hard as you
might think.
Hello, friends.
Thank you so much for joining us right here in the studio.
My name is Kaylah.
And my name is Ryan.
Friends, how many of you have noticed your computer getting slower,
or worse, how many of you have ever had money charged to your credit card from
someone else after you bought something online?
Well, in our TECHNOLOGY article today, we're talking about getting hacked.
To be hacked.
Now friends, we have talked about hacking before.
Now we're going to look at this verb, "hacked." Now it's when someone illegally
or without permission uses another's computer or computer system.
Right.
If you hack something, that means you are using it without the other person's
permission or using it in a way that it was not originally designed to be used.
And if this happens to your computer, then we have some quick and easy tips for
dealing with a hacked computer or a hacked account.
Now we've talked about... having a hacked computer, that means they get in and
use your information.
Now an account could be any kind of account.
It could be your bank account, could be your email account, your Facebook
account.
So what do you do when this has happened?
Let's look at some tips.
OK. Well friends, it could have happened because you downloaded something called
malware.
Now "malware" is computer software that is designed to try and get or steal
information from you or damage your computer.
Now friends, I'm... I'm not going to say you did this on purpose, usually it's
an accident.
But sometimes malware comes into your computer.
So this would be a way people are getting in without your permission.
And this happens to more people than you would think because malware is often
downloaded without you ever knowing about it.
Well, OK. Or then again, or possibly another way this has happened,
it might be because you stopped using your email or social networking account
but didn't shut it down.
OK. Now we all know what email is.
Social networking, though, is website similar to Facebook or MySpace or websites
like that.
LinkedIn or Twitter, any of these accounts that you talk to other people through
the Internet in a large scale, not just your email account.
But maybe you've stopped using your email or stopped using this account, you
can... you can't just stop, Ryan.
You have to go even further than that; you need to actually shut the account
down.
OK. Now we look at a phrase here also, "to shut it down." That means stop using
it, you delete it so that it is not running anymore.
Friends, we've got a little bit of more information on this sentence with Liz in
Grammar on the Go.
Hello there, friends.
How are you doing today?
My name is Liz.
And it's time for Grammar on the Go.
Our TECHNOLOGY article today is about what you should do if you discover that
someone has hacked into your online accounts.
And here's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Then again, it might be because you stopped using your email or social
networking account.
Our focus today is on the phrase at the beginning of the sentence, "then
again..." It's an idiom that means on the other hand.
And we usually use it to talk about how there might be another possibility.
Here are some examples:
Tony is certain he has prepared everything for the meeting; then again, he is
known to be careless.
In other words, even though Tony is positive everything is ready, people might
have their doubts because he is not a careful person.
Or: Brian was not a good speaker at the meeting and he gave a boring speech;
then again, he was suffering from a very bad headache.
In other words, Brian didn't speak well at the meeting, but it could be because
he had a very bad headache.
So friends, next time when you have a certain situation, but then you realize
there might be another possibility, give this idiom a try.
And if you have a copy of this month's magazine, be sure to check out today's
Grammar Tip section for more example sentences.
That's it for today.
This is Liz with Grammar on the Go signing off.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Liz.
OK, friends.
So we're looking at a hacked account.
We said there are two different ways.
And this next phrase, whatever the cause, this means it doesn't really matter
how it happened, this is what you have to do next.
So whatever the cause, you've just discovered your account has been sending
advertisements to people... and advertisements and junk mail to all of your
contacts for days.
Has this happened?
Oh, yeah. And I'm sure you've gotten emails like this from your friends.
They say "You should sign up for this service, it's wonderful." And you think,
well, why would my friends send me this?
Well, that's because their emails are sending advertisements, which are things
that are designed to try and get you to buy something else,
or junk mail, and that's emails that are sent to you or real mail that is sent
to you that is trying to get you to sign up for something or give them money.
Junk mail is anything you don't want to get, not bills or personal information;
it's just junk or trash.
You don't want it.
Exactly.
And so if this is happening from your email account, that means your email
account has been hacked,
and other companies are using your email to send all of your contacts emails or
junk mail.
That's right.
So now you know discovering you've been hacked is a traumatic experience.
And I don't know.
I've never been hacked, but I've had friends that were hacked, and it turned out
very bad.
It's been very traumatic for them.
Yeah. Something that is "traumatic" causes a lot of emotional stress.
And that would happen.
You feel like people are violating or in your space or they are too close to
you.
They are involved in the things that are personal to you.
It can be very upsetting.
Traumatic means extremely upsetting, it makes it very difficult for you.
And even on top of that, it can be very hard to figure out what to do next.
How do you solve it?
OK. Well friends, fortunately, it's possible to regain control of your online
account, and it's not as hard as you might think.
So friends, we know this situation happens, but you can regain control.
That means you can get the control back and shut down the people who have hacked
your online account.
That's right.
If you regain something, that means you get back something that used to be
yours.
And... we're going to show you how to get back all of your accounts, get back
control of your computer as soon as we're done watching this skit.
Hey, why are you sending me advertisements and junk mail?
I'm not sending you anything.
You're not? Well, you are!
Look, right here.
Oh, no! I've been hacked!
How did this happen?
You've been hacked?
Well, maybe you downloaded malware.
Maybe.
Oh, then again, maybe you stopped using an account and didn't shut it down.
Maybe.
Or then again, maybe...
Whatever the cause, I've been hacked.
It's OK. It's OK.
Discovering you've been hacked is a traumatic experience.
I've been hacked.
All right. Figuring out what to do next can be hard.
I've been hacked! Oh!
Fortunately, regaining control of your online account isn't as hard as you
think.
But I don't have access to my accounts now.
Most networking sites make it easy for you to salvage your accounts.
Really? How?
It's easy. Look here.
Go to the sign-in page and click where it says: Can't access account.
OK, I'll click the button.
Ah, you're right.
That was easy.
That is the first step toward recovering your account.
What else do I have to do?
Well, clean up your computer.
Delete all that malicious software.
I've beenhacked!