Internet Security at Home

Angela Samuels

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Topics

Child Online Safety

Phishing and Pharming Scams

Spyware Protection

Virus and Worm Protection

Patches and Updates

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Child Online Safety

Statistics of Online Activity

61% of 13 to 17 year olds have a personal profile on sites such as Myspace or Friendster.

33% of 13- to- 17-year-olds reported that their parents or guardians know “very little” or “nothing” about what they do on the Internet

14% have actually met face-to-face with a person they had known only through the Internet

Source: http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/statistics.htm

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Child Online Safety

Online Resources

http://www.netsmartz.org/

http://www.protectyourkids.info/

http://www.safekids.com/

http://www.blogsafety.com/

Recommended Software by PC magazine

http://www.safeeyes.com/

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To-Do List

Educate yourself and your children about the risk of online communication with strangers

Define family rules of computer use and post those rules for all to see

Have your children sign a pledge form

Keep the line of communication open between you and your kids

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Example of House Rules

1. Be careful when communicating online

2. Never share personal information online

3. Respect other people’s rights

4. Tell your parents if something online makes you feel uncomfortable

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Information Security: Today’s Threats

All of these are daily growing threats. 1 in 5 Americans were the target of a phishing ploy last year,

costing US banks and creditors roughly $1.2 Billion - CNET.com news

Viruses are increasingly used for more corrupt purposes – it’s not just for fame or fun anymore

Written for profit

Data theft also an increasing goal

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Scams

As a computer user you are threatened by: Phishing – Deceptive emails falsely representing a legitimate

enterprise that attempt to lure a user into sharing personal or financial information for the purposes of identity theft.

Example: A scammer posing as a online book store, wanting a user to login their account to restore their account.

Pharming – forged emails that look as though they came from a somewhere or someone other than the actual source.

Example: An email sent by a scammer or virus that appears to come from a friend or associate.

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Tips on Phishing Scams

Never reply to email messages that request personal information

Don’t click on suspicious links

Make sure the Web sites use encryption

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Spyware

Software that covertly gathers user information through a user’s Internet connection without your consent. Primarily used for advertisements.

What Spyware can do it?

1. Bombard you with ads

2. Change your settings

3. Collect personal information

4. Slow down or crash your computer

Possible Spyware sites Screensavers

Free program downloads site

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Viruses and Worms

A program or piece of code that is loaded onto a computer and runs without the users knowledge.

Trojan horse – a destructive program masquerading as a friendly application.

Worm – a self-replicating program designed to send itself to as many email recipients, or computers on a network, as possible.

Example: Yamanner arrives in a Yahoo mailbox bearing the subject header "New Graphic Site." Once the message is opened, the computer becomes infected and the worm spreads itself to people on the Yahoo e-mail contact list. The harvested e-mail addresses are also sent to a remote online server (June 06 cnet.com)

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Three things to keep safe online

Use an Internet Firewall Guard against Intruders

Get Computer Updates Keep your software current

Use an Up-to-Date Antivirus Software Keep antivirus software updated

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Information Security: Today’s Threats

Solution ??

Knowledge.

The best home security system in the world cannot stop you from leaving your front door wide open.

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