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Todays’ Discussion
ž  Overview of Computer and Internet Security
ž  What is Computer and Internet Security
ž  Who Should be Concerned
ž  Why Should I Care
ž  General Computer Security Tips
ž  Securing Mobile Devices and Social Networks
ž  Mobile Devices – Risks
ž  How are Location Sharing Technologies used
— Risks of Location Sharing Technologies

— Examples of Location Sharing Technologies

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What is Computer and Internet Security

ž  Computer Security
— Protecting computers, information, and services from
unauthorized access, change or destruction.
— Internet security extends this concept to systems that are
connected to the Internet
○ Browsing the Internet

○ Electronic Commerce

○ Social Networking

○ Emailing

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Todays’ Discussion
ž  Overview of Computer and Internet Security
ž  What is Computer and Internet Security
ž  Who Should be Concerned
ž  Why Should I Care
ž  General Computer Security Tips
ž  Securing Mobile Devices and Social Networks
ž  Mobile Devices – Risks
ž  How are Location Sharing Technologies used
—  Risks of Location Sharing Technologies

—  Examples of Location Sharing Technologies

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What is Computer and Internet Security

ž  Computer Security
—  Protecting computers, information, and services from
unauthorized access, change or destruction.
—  Internet security extends this concept to systems that are
connected to the Internet
○  Browsing the Internet

○  Electronic Commerce

○  Social Networking

○  Emailing

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Who Should be concerned

ž  Anyone who uses
—  Computers

—  Mobile Devices

—  The Internet

—  Email

—  Social Networks

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Why Should I Care?

ž  Infections from viruses, spyware, or
malware
—  Virus - Program designed to infect your
computer, replicates itself , and usually causes
lost or corrupt data

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Why Should I Care.. Cont’d

ž  Phishing, Hoaxes, Malware, Scams and Spam
—  The most prevalent and persistent threats to your security
come to you in your Inbox. They come by different names
and may even appear legitimate and even supposedly
from people you may know.
—  They all have this in common: they are designed to get
you to click on an item like an attachment, link or picture.

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Why Should I Care.. Cont’d

ž  Broken device

—  Devices that do not work when needed or

as expected.

ž  Privacy and personal security concerns

•  Preventing private,
personal, or sensitive
information from being
disclosed

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Basic Approaches to Security

ž  Use anti-virus and anti-spyware Software

—  Detects and removes viruses and spyware
from your computer
—  Must be kept up to date
ž  Install
security patches
ž  Enable Firewalls
—  Protects computers by preventing
unauthorized access

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Basic Approaches to Security

ž  Use strong passwords to protect computers

ž  Be cautious about downloading free software or files
from untrusted sites
ž  Most prevalent threats to your security
come to you in your Inbox; are all designed
to get you to click on an item like an
attachment, link or picture.
ž  If you click, you could launch harmful
programs or be directed to a harmful web
site.

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Basic Approaches to Security

ž  Think before you click on links
—  Most threats are targeted in hopes that you will click on a
harmful link, attachment, picture, video or icon in an email or
web page
—  Stop: Do not automatically click on Internet links until you
have confidence in them.
—  Think: Look at the actual address for the links in question.
For instance if the link indicates “Click Here” be sure to
hover your mouse pointer over the link and investigate
before you proceed.
—  Click: Only after you are confident that the
site is safe.

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Security for Mobile Devices and Social

Networks
ž  Mobile Devices have become the devices of choice for
communicating and connecting to the Internet
—  Smartphones

—  Tablets

—  Laptop Computers

ž  Social Networks

—  Foursquare, Google Latitude, Twitter

—  Facebook, Google +

—  Pinterest, Gowalla

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Mobile Devices - Risks

ž  Mobile devices are easy to lose or steal
ž  Can carry large amount of data
—  If stolen, an unsecured Smartphone grants access
to your private information: email correspondence,
address books, and any unsecured documents.
ž  Often unprotected
ž  Data may be “sniffed” during unprotected
wireless communications

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Mobile Devices - Risks

ž  Location Sharing
—  Location-aware applications
deliver online content to users
based on their physical
location.

—  Technologies employ GPS,

cell phone infrastructure or
wireless access points to
identify where cell phones or
laptops are located and users
can share that information
with location-aware
applications.

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Mobile Devices - How are Location

Sharing Technologies used?
ž  Apps might provide you with
information on nearby
restaurants, notify you of
traffic jams, or let your
friends in a social network
know where you are,
prompting increased social
connectivity.

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Risks of Location Sharing Technologies

ž  Makes users “human homing beacons”

ž  Increases the chances of being stalked
ž  May reveal when you are home or away

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Examples of Location-Sharing
Technologies
—  GPS Geo-tagging of photos
—  Location details added to photographs
—  Facebook places
—  Allows users to "share where you are with your
friends, see where your friends are and
discover new places around you.
—  Blip– Blackberry application updates
location every 15 minutes.
—  Google Latitude – Allows you to see
where your friends are and what they doing

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Security Guidelines for Location Sharing

Technologies
ž  Most apps offer privacy controls –
enable them
—  Some privacy controls are not always easy
to access
ž  Defaults may be too open
ž  Know what applications you have and
research privacy controls
ž  Disable GPS capabilities and geo-
tagging features

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Security Guidelines - Mobile Devices

ž  Enable auto-lock

ž  Enable password protection
ž  Keep the phone OS and apps up-to-date
ž  Enable remote wipe feature where
possible
ž  Avoid connecting to public wireless
network when possible.

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Security Guidelines - Social Networks

ž  Security Guidelines

—  Before you post, ask the following:
○  Will this post/picture cause a problem for me?
○  Would I say this in front of my mother?
—  Limit the number of people that see it
○  Share public information with the public
○  Share inner thoughts and personal feelings
with close friends

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Security Guidelines - Social Networks

ž  Limit your visibility on services

ž  Do not Friend or Connect with people
that you have not met in person or know
well
ž  Limit your check-in information to friends
only
ž  Never check in at your home, school,
work
ž  A mayorship is a public “office”

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Security Guidelines - Social Networks

ž  Avoid public lists for a location

ž  Review posts you are tagged in
ž  Turn off geo location data in photos
ž  Turn off “find my face” in photos and
videos
ž  Disable location data for tweets
— Delete old location data too

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Stay Safe
Think before you click and try to be
mysterious when online

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