US Copyright Law & Protecting Your Privacy On-Line

Marty ManjakInformation Security Officer

US Copyright Law

Signed by Pres. Washington in 1790 Protects authors of “maps, charts,

and books” Author possesses sole authority to

print, publish, and sell Violators fined $.50 for each

unauthorized copy

Intellectual Property

Roberto (Law) has an idea Roberto commits his idea to

“tangible form” (paper, electronic) Roberto’s idea is now copyrighted No one else may copy, distribute,

or sell his idea without his permission

Intellectual Property (IP)

Copyright protects IP Examples: choreography, sculpture,

films, books, screenplays, essays, scripts, diagrams, paintings, drawings, research, designs, maps, architectural drawings, songs, poems, non-fiction…..

All are protected against theft…in any format

Digital Millennium Copyrigh Act-1998

DMCA: written to protect IP from digital copying and distribution.

If university receives a DMCA complaint: They must remove the copyrighted

material from their network Or, be liable for financial penalties

File Sharing and Peer-to-Peer

File sharing software (Limeware and BitTorrent) can violate copyright law

Sharing protected works without permission

Worse-They can cost you thousands of dollars! Up to $250,000 per item! Recent awards: $54,000-$67,5000

Be Careful with file sharing!

Don’t embarrass your host school Don’t embarrass yourself Don’t become liable for financial

penalties

The Copyright Test

If you don’t have permission, you can’t share it

On-line Protection

Cyber crime is big business You will be a target You need to be pro-active in

protecting your privacy and your computer

The Torpig Botnet Researchers at UC Santa Barbara

gained control of botnet for 10 days 180,000 machines were infected 70Gbs (7 x 1010) of personal data

collected 8,310 account passwords 410 financial institutions 1,660 credit card numbers

Scareware

Fake antivirus products earn promoters $100 million (for starters) http://www.interpol.int/public/Data/W

anted/Notices/Data/2009/45/2009_13445.asp

http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/2010/05/28/swede-u-s-citizen-accused-of-running-scareware-scam/

How were machines infected? Drive-by downloads from legitimate web

sites. Good web sites have been compromised

and seeded with malicious code that attacks your computer

Malware will attack your browser and other software (Adobe products [Flash, Reader], iTunes, Quicktime, Java)

Protection #1

Don’t use the web with administrator privileges Use less privileged “User” accounts This is standard with Vista and

Windows 7 machines

Protection #2

Keep EVERYTHING patched secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/

online/ Secunia will check for missing

patches and vulnerable software Install the Personal version:

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

Protection #3

Use anti-malware products Anti-virus Anti-spyware

Spyware Blaster Spybot Search and Destroy

Windows Defender Keep them up-to-date!

Protection #4 Use long passphrases (> 14 characters),

even on Facebook! J’aimedespommesfr!t3S = 8621

Use different passphrases for different services

Use KeePass2 to remember your passphrases http://keepass.info/download.html

Protection #2

Keep EVERYTHING patched secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/

online/ Secunia will check for missing

patches and vulnerable software Install the Personal version:

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

Protection #5

Use a firewall Most operating systems (Windows,

Mac OS X) come with built in firewalls Don’t turn them off!

Protection #6 Beware of social engineering

Most malware is installed by the victim

Fake video codecs Poison links in email messages Phishing: “Send us your password now!” Fraudulent messages from “friends” Fake anti-virus warnings

Criminals will pose as friends, victims, and authorities

Protection: Bonus Points

Use the Firefox browser with No Script Forces you to decide what content you

will allow Will break a lot of web pages But will also stop 99% of web attacks https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/

firefox/addon/722/

More Firefox Bonus Points

Browser Plug-in: AdBlock Plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

ox/addon/1865/ Browser Plug-in: Better Privacy

Deletes persistent cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/

firefox/addon/6623/

Review

1. Don’t run as admin 2. Keep EVERYTHING patched 3. Use Anti-virus software 4. Different site; Different

passphrase 5. Firewalls: don’t disable 6. Be wary of social engineering

Thank you!

And good luck!!