how much of your personal information is...
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Purpose and Scope
To analyze how much of your personal information is online.To make you question how much data you put on the Internet.
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Who wants your details
Spammers – targeted phishingCorporationsCyber criminals – Identity theftInvestigatorsHacktivists – DOX
Facebook CIA video: bit.ly/xPjEax4
What details do they want?
EmailUsernamePhone #’sIP addressFriendsGPS locationPhoto’s (public and private)NameHometown
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Where can they dig up this info?
Search EnginesSocial NetworksReverse Image SearchPrevious Version Archive (archive.org)School & Alumni SitesDating SitesJigsaw.com
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Prevention
Avoid using work email for non work sitesAvoid using same password anywhere
P@ssw0rd#8 vs. NascarP@ssw0rd#8Make user ID uniq and difficult to guessKnow your footprint to know your exposureUse a separate junkmail email address
Gmail, etc lets you check bothBCC instead of CCCode contact forms instead of “mailto:”
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Map Emails to Profiles
Map profile to an email (normally private)Correlate different social networks against same email and/or usernameEnrich emails with private user info for phishing attacksHidden profiles
SwingersCreepersCheaters
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Monitter.com (Live Twitter feed search)
Tweets containingHome aloneHome numberLeaving vacationBirthday
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Social Search Engines
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www.facebook-search.comsearch.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=39.802941%2C-89.655697%2C1mi&rpp=100computercrimeinfo.com/twittersearch.htmlyouropenbook.orgopenfacebooksearch.com
Password reset questions
Birth dateZip codeMother’s maiden nameFirst carI Recommend using a password insteadExample: Sarah Palin yahoo account.
Used Yahoo for official state business“Rubico” sentenced to 1 year in custody
www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/palin-hacker-sentenced
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