11. 11 Tip #5 Use Social Networks Safely Don’t: Post personal information Post schedules or whereabouts Post inappropriate photos http://www.sileo.com/facebook-status-update-leads-to-robbery/
12. Tip #6 Remember Who Else is There Who else uses social networking? Employers Identity Thieves Online Predators Facebook Stalker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCh9bmg0zGg) 12
13. What You Post Can Be Used To… Make judgments about your character Impersonate you to financial institutions Monitor what you do and where you go 13
14. Tip #7 Be wary of others Choose your friends carefully "41% of Facebook users agreed to be friends with this plastic frog, opening themselves up to the risk of identity theft." The frog’s name was FreddiStaur http://podcasts.sophos.com/en/sophos-podcasts-019.mp3 14
15. Is this really your friend? Just because it’s your friend’s account does not mean that it’s your friend! 15
16. Tip #8 Search for your name Do a vanity search Set up a Google Alert 16
17. Tip #9 Guard Your Personal Information! Watch out for Facebook Applications!! A 2008 study found that 90.7% of apps had access to private user data (only 9.3% actually used the data) 17
18. Tip #10 Use Privacy Settings Default settings are set to _________? Adjust ______________to help protect your identity Show "limited friends" a _____________of your profile Disable _________, then open them one by one http://www.sophos.com/security/best-practice/facebook.html
19. The First Line of Defense Stay alert—you will be the first to know if something goes wrong
Per the MarkMonitor Brandjacking Index for Spring 2009:Phish attacks targeting social networks have grown 241 percent from Q1 2008 to Q1 2009 and have grown 1,500-fold since we first started tracking the category in 2007.
Weak passwords can be guessedAutomated programsPersonal detailsUse different passwordsHow many accounts can be accessed with just one of your passwords?Password vaultsPassphrases