Internet Security for Everyone

An intro to not getting pwned

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1. Internet Security for Everyone Benjamin Scott ben@foxlight.co tinyurl.com/onlinesecurityclass
2. - Put important files on Dropbox / Google Drive - Use two-factor authentication with your phone image credit: Cisco Security Ransoming your Data
3. Recognizing Scams and Phishing - Sense of urgency - Appeal to greed - Disguised links to malicious sites and attachments Malicious link image credit: Wikipedia
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Scheme Subdomain Domain Top-level Domain Resource What is a link anyway? - Scheme is how your computer talks to the site, - Domain is the website’s name in the phone book - Subdomain is a different area on the same site - Resource is a specific page on that site
5. Risks of Malicious Links This guy takes over your computer - Steals your money - Pretends to be you and steals your friend’s money - Launches attacks from your computer image credit: FBI Cyber Most Wanted
6. When you get a malicious email Ask yourself: - Is the email expected? - Do you know the sender? - Why are they sending this to you? If you’re worried: - Don’t click anything in the email - Report the email as spam Gmail Yahoo
7. Trusting Sites Suspicious Not Suspicious - Look for a green “certificate” - Use Google Chrome - Look for odd typos
8. Privacy and Social Media Things you post online will be read by - Family - Significant others - Advertisers - Law enforcement
9. See Also decentsecurity.com Free AntiVirus - MalwareBytes - Spybot Search & Destroy Chrome Extensions - Ghostery to disable trackers - HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt by default - Web of Trust to see reputation of site