protecting yourself online (information assurance)
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Protecting Yourself Online(Information Assurance)
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Information Assurance
• Definition (IA): The practice of assuring information and managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes.
• Assurance – a positive declaration designed to give confidence
• Accounting – Profession in auditing is about assuring financial information of companies.
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Internet Safety
• What is internet safety?– “is the knowledge of maximizing the user's
personal safety and security risks on private information and property associated with using the internet.”
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Internet Safety• Creating personal safety through knowledge on
– Social Media• Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc..
– Internet Use • Public Wi-Fi networks
– Passwords• Strength of password, Vulnerabilities
– Internet Links• Untrusted, Unsure?
– Email• Spam Attachments, Viruses
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Trouble on Social MediaHeadline: Superintendent tweets farm animal noises about top state official
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Social Media
• How many students actively use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social network?
• What kind of information are you putting on these sites?– Name – Address– Phone Number– Email– Job– Family Members– Birthdate
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• How can Facebook help protect you from theft or scams?
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• Think You’re Still Safe?
• Who posts pictures from a smartphone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcuwDQS1Uw0
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Free Wi-Fi!
• What are you really connecting to?– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xkdVqh974
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FREE Wi-Fi!
• Are you putting yourself at risk by using free Wi-Fi at places that offer it?
• What’s wrong with free Wi-Fi?– Wireshark– Stealing your information through an
unsecured wireless network• 95% of Wi-Fi traffic data is unencrypted
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Wireshark
• What is Wireshark?– “is a network packet analyzer. A network packet
analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible.”
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PasswordsRecognize any of these?
An 18 year old boy gained access to a Twitter Staff
members account allowing him special administrative access.
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Passwords
• What is a good password? – Use the internet to help determine strength.
• http://www.passwordmeter.com
– Who thinks they have a good password? – Tips
• Try not to use simple words • Use combination of characters • Use a saying and create an acronym• Try to use more than one password
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Untrusted Links
• IF YOU AREN’T SURE DON’T CLICK– MacKeeper
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Email Spam• Spam Email is unwanted email sent by an automatic
messaging software on the internet.
• What happens if you click on the links?– You can be sent to a phishing website that is hosting malware
– Malware can be installed on your computer without your knowledge• If either of the above occur, your computer has a high chance of being infected with a
virus• Your information can be stolen if it’s not properly protected
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Mobile Spam• Spam has been increasingly growing
through text messages and mobile phones– The messages claim you have won a prize and you
just need to click the link– Sometimes the messages have no clear message at
all
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Viruses You Can Obtain
• Malware
• AdWare
• Trojan
• Worms
• Denial of Service
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Unseen Dangers
http://www.welivesecurity.com/2012/04/23/qr-codes-and-nfc-chips-preview-and-authorize-should-be-default/
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•Questions?