Social Media Security

Social Media Security Brought to you by: SecurityCoverage The explosion of Facebook and social media has created a whole new set of security problems. Social Media Growth Growth In Social Media Users 2008-2013 1-4 f Facebook *08 09 From 2008-2013 Facebook jumped from 100 million users to over 1 billion users. Twitter 10 From 2008-2013 Twitter jumped from 6 million users to over 232 million users. 11 LinkedIn From 2008-2013 LinkedIn jumped from 33 million users to over 225 million users. 12 U Instagram From 2010-2013 Instagram jumped from 1 million users to 13 over 150 million users. In One Internet Minute... s 00:00:00 in 100 6. New Linkedin Million 00:45:00 00:15:00 Accounts Facebook Views 100 Thousand New Tweets 00:30:00 Warning Signs No Account is Safe! Million LinkedIn, eHarmony, and Last.fm passwords stolen and uploaded to Russlan hacker forum. 6. 500 Million Thousand Facebook members were affected by a bug that sent the private Informatlon of other users using the Download My Informatlon Tool. Scribd passwords stolen as result of hack. 250 Thousand Twitter users Information was hacked. Data Breaches in 2012 - 2013 Fake Profiles. Social Trust Exploitation. Short URLS and other ways we're being taken advantage of on Social Media. friendbook home ♥the REAL! Lily Collins fan page post These fake profiles are havens for 7.2 % of Social Media Profiles omputer scammers, were Fake in Q1 2013! worms, drive by downloads and other malicious code. The Facebook Dislike Button Scam' All of these scams offered to add a new Dislike button feature to the users profile; instead, it attempted to install malware. 84% of malicious links submitted by SysSec researchers to the top 6 URL shortening sites were accepted. 9 XG URL SHORTENING TRANSFORMATION DEVICE VIRUS-DOWNLOA SAFE.WEB We're Part of the Problem Not Properly Using or Under-Utilizing Social Media Privacy Settings 10 of Social Media users claim 10% that at some point they have had “posting regret". 30% of Social Media users include their location in their posts. 10 of Social Media users 39% profiles are completely or partially public. Oversharing: Annoying to Friends: A Treasure Trove for Identity Thieves. Hi World, My Name is My Dog's Name is BRUISER I was born on MAY 6, 1984 RICHARD SMITH 3215 STEALMYIDENTITY ST. Wanna BE MY FRIEND STRANGER? My Address is The damage that can be done with just two pieces of information is disastrous! Sharing Malicious Links Jackie Chan is Dead Post One Example of a Malicious Facebook Story Link contains: 1 Browser Hijack 1 4. Media Player Install Adware Apps 1 Video Download "I'm Fine!!!" Own Your Digital Identity How to Protect Yourself When Using Social Media Create and use longer passwords with random letters, numbers and Login User [email protected] characters. Password Password managers can do this for you! *T/X8TCK2P!5F^ Use a reliable and secure anti-virus solution on all your computers and online connected devices. Backup your most important data to a remote location so you can restore your data if you are infected. Data loss can happen to the best of us... SecurityCoverage recommends these products for web security: Secure Hôpper Plus Password Genie Sources 1. http://newsroom.fb.com/Timeline 2. https://blog.twitter.com/company 3. http://ourstory.linkedin.com 4. http://Instagram.com/press 5. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html 6. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks 7. http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-NJ5DZ/2735274824x0x659143/b4cobeda-da0a-4f8e- 9735-9852ef08adbl/FB_Q113_InvestorDeck_FINAL.pdf 8. IAnewsletter vol 15.2 http://lac.dtic.mil/csiac/download/Vol15_No2.pdf 9. http://www.syssec-project.eu/m/page-medla/3/maggi-longshore-www13.pdf 10. visual.ly http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Privacy-management-on-social-medla/Main-findings/ Maln-findings.aspx 11. http://www.pewinternet.org/Data-Tools/Explore-Survey-Questions/Roper-Center.aspx?t=312&sdate= 2012&edate=2013&k= Brought to you by: SecurityCoverage www.securitycoverage.com (319) 298-4700