This presentation is intended to increase awareness of Extension Agents to the threats of scams and malware on the Internet. In addition it covers some ways to stay protected from such threats.

1. Internet Security Dave Palmer Instructional Media Agent South Central Extension District

3. Part 1 – The Threats Virus Worms Scams Trojans Backdoor Bots Malware Hackers Phishing Rootkit Spyware

4. The threats most people are not aware of. The threats many of us are aware of.

5. The Global Scope of the Problem Estonia, a tiny but highly wired country on the Baltic Sea, was essentially shut down for 3 weeks during April and May of 2007 by organized cyber attacks.

6. The Global Scope of the Problem 2 dozen South Korean & U.S. Government agencies & others were attacked in July 2009. Targets included the DoD, FAA, Homeland Security, NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.

7. The National Scope of the Problem Database breach by hackers personal information on 160,00 current and former students and alumni stolen. 530,000 medical records stolen including social security numbers. Sensitive information on 65,000 current and former employees stolen. A few of the many major security breaches that became public in the 2 nd Quarter of 2009.

11. Malware – malicious software Intent is to damage, disrupt, steal, or otherwise inflict problems on data, hosts, or networks.

12. The Scope of the Problem The number of NEW malware threats is increasing New malicious code signatures - Symantec 2007 2008

16. Flash Cookies Widely used… … including in Extension

18. Social Engineering Means: Manipulating people to do things or to divulge confidential information

21. Pharming Intent is to redirect a legitimate website's traffic to another, nearly identical but bogus website for the purpose of stealing sensitive information.

36. Bot Network

37. Intermission When we return… how do we protect our computers and our data?

38. Part 2 – The Protection We’ve covered the threats, but how do we protect ourselves?

39. Use Best Practices Data Router w/ hardware firewall ZoneAlarm software firewall Spybot w/ tea timer Super Anti Spyware Anti virus software Backup Data

56. Update Your Applications

57. Data Router w/ hardware firewall ZoneAlarm software firewall Spybot w/ tea timer Super Anti Spyware Anti virus software Use Best Practices Backup Data

62. Data Wireless Router w/ hardware firewall ZoneAlarm software firewall Spybot w/ tea timer Super Anti Spyware Anti virus software Use Best Practices Backup Data

69. Data Wireless Router w/ hardware firewall ZoneAlarm software firewall Spybot w/ tea timer Super Anti Spyware Anti virus software Use Best Practices Backup Data

81. You Commercial Repair Local PC Users Groups Friends & family CompUSA Geek Squad Local repair shop Etc. When you need help…