privacy and security in today’s web world
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Privacy and Security in Today’s Web World. Coy Thorp Security Engineer, WatchGuard Technologies. http:// goo.gl/Hsxsn. Social Networking – 7 Deadly Sins By Bill Brenner , Senior Editor - CSOonline. Over-sharing company activities Over-sharing personal activities - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Privacy and Security in Today’s Web World
Coy ThorpSecurity Engineer, WatchGuard Technologies
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What is“Today’s Web World?”
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What is all of this?
• The “Social Web”• Web 2.0• Etc…
What is the impact?
• Personal• Business
What are the numbers?
• Let’s look at Facebook…
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Facebook is Popular…So What?
1 in 5 Facebook users has at least one malicious link
on their feed
60% of Facebook attacks come from
apps
Malicious friend
requests
Like-jacking malicious
links
Facebook pages used to redirect
to malware
URL “shorteners” exasperate the
issue
http://goo.gl/Hsxsn
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Social Networking – 7 Deadly SinsBy Bill Brenner, Senior Editor - CSOonline
1. Over-sharing company activities 2. Over-sharing personal activities3. Mixing personal with professional 4. Engaging in Tweet / Update Rage 5. Believing he/she who dies with the
most friends wins 6. Password sloth – one master
password7. Trigger finger
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How Do the “Hackers” Do Their Job?
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A botnet is a network of compromised computers under the control of a remote attacker/s.
Botnets are the Swiss Army knife of the malware world, and bot-herders have many
blades to choose from.
Botnet When Your Computer is Owned By Someone Else
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Initial Infection
Compromised computers are “owned”
“owned” computers are rented
SPAM campaign launched
Pump Up The VolumeFBI Busts Alleged Mega D Botnet Mastermind
.
Oleg Nikolaenko
More than 500,000 infected computers
Paid$475,000
Ten Billion Spam e-mails a day. = 30% OF ALL SPAM WORLDWIDE
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What Can I Do?
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Review
Respond
Reject
Reward