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
Welcome back, everybody.
You know, it might be funny when you secretly hop onto your friend's computer
and post a hilarious status on their Facebook profile.
But it's not funny when a stranger hacks into your friend's computer and looks
at their personal information, including financial records.
OK, let's get back to the text and learn how to retake control of a hacked
account on line 15.
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Hacked!
Getting control of your account.
If your account has been hacked, you probably won't be able to access it.
But most email and social networking sites make it easy for you to salvage your
account.
Go to the sign-in page and look for a button that reads something like "Can't
access your account?".
Clicking that button is the first step toward recovering your account.
Clean up your computer.
Make sure your computer's anti-virus software is updated.
Many account hacks begin with malware that passes your password information to a
hacker.
Changing the password on your account isn't a lasting solution if you don't
remove any malicious software.
Friends, maybe your account has been hacked.
What are you going to do?
It's a traumatic situation.
You feel upset and stressed.
But don't worry - you can regain control, and it's not as hard as you might
think.
That's right.
You might think it's very difficult, but it's really not as difficult as you
think.
It's pretty easy.
And we're going to show you how to get control of your account.
OK. How do we do this if we're going back to regain or get that control again?
Now if your account has been hacked, you probably won't be able to access it.
OK. If you have access, that means you're able to get in and have control of
your account again.
But if it has been hacked, then maybe your password has been changed and you
won't be able to use it in order to log in or have access again.
But even though that's the case, most email and social networking sites make it
easy for you to salvage your account.
So even though you can't sign in right away, they make it easy for you.
Yes, you can salvage your account.
Kaylah, I usually think of the word "salvage" referring to when a ship sinks or
if something is lost in a car crash or something like that.
The word "salvage" means to rescue as much good or as many goods as you can from
a bad situation.
So if you salvage your account, that means you get control of it and get all of
the good things back even though it went through a bad situation.
Another situation that you might use salvage in is last month we talked about
disasters, being prepared for a disaster.
Now at the end of a disaster, salvaging what is left open is taking those good
things back.
So our good thing in this situation, Ryan, is then our account.
Exactly.
Now Kaylah, have you ever had an account get hacked before?
Actually, I've been very blessed, and I have not had my account been hacked.
But my sister did, and I got some junk mail from her.
Aiyo. Well, I've had my account get hacked before too.
And the person changed my password.
They started using my credit card and charging me a lot of money, and I couldn't
stop it because I could not sign in.
But there is a way to rescue your account and salvage it.
Yet if only Ryan had known.
You can go to the sign-in page and look for a button that reads something like
or kind of like something similar to: Can't access your account?
OK. Now first of all, this button "reads like this." And that phrase simply
means that that is the way it is written.
So if you read it and it looks like it means something similar to "you cannot
access your account?" then maybe this is the right option for you to salvage
your account.
That's right.
Clicking that button is the very first step to... toward covering your account.
And you need to do that, friends.
You need to go in, find that button.
And that's on the sign-in page.
What is the sign-in page?
Good question. The sign-in page is the place on a website where you enter your
name and password in order to log in.
So if you go there, and obviously you can't sign in because someone changed your
name and password,
then you can click on that button and the website will find a way to help you
recover or get your account back.
OK. That's the first step.
Next, clean up your computer.
Now I hope your computer is not dirty.
I hope there's no food crumbs in it.
That's not what we're talking about, though, not clean out the outside, but
clean up the inside.
Exactly.
And the way you can do that is to make sure that your computer's anti-virus
software is updated.
Anti-virus software is a program on your computer that gets rid of other
programs that are bad for your computer.
Those are called viruses.
We... we said one earlier.
We called it malware.
Now an anti-virus would block that from getting into your computer.
Exactly. And you need to make sure, Kaylah, it's updated.
If you update a computer program or anything else, that means you make it as new
as possible.
So you would download the latest update so that it is able to protect your
computer.
Now many account hacks begin with malware that passes your password information
to a hacker.
So you might not know that the malware that computer is trying to get in,
but it takes your information and sends it on to the person trying to get in.
Yeah, it passes it or gives it to them.
And that's not what you want, especially in the hands of a hacker, someone who
is trying to use your computer or information in the way you don't want.
Now Ryan, it just makes sense then that if I change my password, he can't get in
anymore, right?
Well, you might think so, but malware is able to find it.
So changing your password on your account is not a lasting solution if you don't
remove any malicious software.
OK. So you have to get rid of the software, you have to be rid of everything.
So you can't just change a password and hope for the best.
Right.
Something that is "malicious" is intending to harm or upset others.
And so it's bad for you; it's going to try and hurt you.
So just changing your password alone is not lasting.
It will not last forever.
That's right.
And malicious is doing that on purpose.
This computer program is doing it on purpose.
Now friends, we're going to talk more about protecting your computer from being
hacked tomorrow.
But first, let's visit the Chat Room.
Hi, Ken.
Any good stories on the news today?
Uh, not really.
I'm just looking at some stories on CNN.com.
Oh. Is that your favorite news site?
I do check it every day.
But Bryan, I'm curious, when you say news site, how are you spelling "site"?
That would be S-I-T-E.
I see. So "site" must be another way to say website.
Right.
"Site" is the shortened form of website.
OK, I get it.
At first, I was thinking about "site" as a place.
It seemed odd that you would mention a specific place that provided news.
True, although websites are kind of like places on the Internet.
And like real places, they have addresses - web addresses, that is.
Well, I understand that.
But can "site" ever refer to a real place?
Sure. You may have heard about construction sites.
Those are the places where new buildings are being built.
Another kind of site is a historic site or a place where historic events
happened or famous people lived.
I have visited a few of those.
I enjoyed visiting Abraham Lincoln's birth place a few years ago.
That's a great historic site to visit.
Did you take any pictures?
Sure. I'll send you some when I get back home.
I even took pictures of several other sites as well.
That makes sense.
People on vacation always enjoy seeing the sights.
But these sights are spelled S-I-G-H-T-S.
And they're often referred to as the "sights," or all the places we're seeing in
a particular area.
Hence the term sightseeing.
You've got it, Ken.
Well, let me know if you find any other good stories on that site.
Will do.
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And that's all the time we have for today.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
Some of you might have been hacked, and you don't even know it.
If you're not sure, ask yourself a few questions like:
Are there any new programs installed on my computer?
Have any passwords been changed?
Is email, spam being sent to others?
Have any security programs been uninstalled?
Is my computer doing things by itself?
If you've answered yes to any of these questions, then there's a good chance
you've been hacked.
Friends, let's continue learning how to deal with a hacked computer tomorrow.
Until then, have a great day.