Protecting Yourself Online(Information Assurance)

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.

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.”

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

Trouble on Social MediaHeadline: Superintendent tweets farm animal noises about top state official 

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

Facebook

• How can Facebook help protect you from theft or scams?

• Think You’re Still Safe?

• Who posts pictures from a smartphone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcuwDQS1Uw0

Free Wi-Fi!

• What are you really connecting to?– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xkdVqh974

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

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.”

PasswordsRecognize any of these?

An 18 year old boy gained access to a Twitter Staff

members account allowing him special administrative access.

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

Untrusted Links

• IF YOU AREN’T SURE DON’T CLICK– MacKeeper

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

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

Viruses You Can Obtain

• Malware

• AdWare

• Trojan

• Worms

• Denial of Service

Unseen Dangers

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2012/04/23/qr-codes-and-nfc-chips-preview-and-authorize-should-be-default/

•Questions?