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Privacy and Security in Today’s Web World
Coy ThorpSecurity Engineer, WatchGuard Technologies
What is“Today’s Web World?”
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…
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
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
How Do the “Hackers” Do Their Job?
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
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
What Can I Do?
Review
Respond
Reject
Reward
Coy ThorpSecurity Systems Engineer