How we use mobile devices increasingly impacts our online safety. Learn quick tips for upping your internet safety savvy and keep your private data secure.
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Internet Safety: Social, Mobile, Messy
1. Internet Safety Awareness:
Social, Mobile and Messy
Marian Merritt
Internet Safety: Advocate, Symantec Corporation
Norton Internet Safety Social, Mobile, Messy
Marian Merritt, Norton Internet Safety Advocate
3. Cybercrime is a massive global problem
Cybercrime costs
consumers
$112
billion
each year
1/2
of online adults
have been hit
by cybercrime
12%
More Targeted
Attacks
employees
social media
Ransomware
New forms of costly
malicious threats
social network
users have
each year
been hacked
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5. What’s really going on with mobile?
Who here checked Facebook today?
Played Angry Birds or Candy Crush on a mobile device?
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6. What you think you did
vs what actually happened in the background
PREVIOUS SCORES
TIME SPENT
PLAYING
IP ADDRESS
LOCATION
GENDER
& AGE
USER NAME
SCORE
FACEBOOK FRIEND LIST
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7. OK, so I’ll be careful with apps
• , WiFi if not using
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8. What’s going on with Social: advertising scams
WHAT YOU SEE
WHY THEY DO IT
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9. And malicious social links
Bad Guys Want to Get Us to Click to:
Infect us with malware
Make us take bogus surveys to:
Gain information or
Sign us up for premium SMS services
Send spam to us and our friends
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10. Ok, I’ll be careful in social networks and media
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12. SAVVY ON COMPUTER, LESS SO ON MOBILE
DELETE SUSPICIOUS
EMAILS FROM PEOPLE
THEY DON’T KNOW
HAVE AT LEAST A BASIC
FREE ANTIVIRUS SOLUTION
AVOID STORING SENSITIVE
FILES ONLINE
90%
72%
78%
VS.
VS.
VS.
60%
42%
53%
VS.
VS.
VS.
56%
33%
48%
GOOD JOB!
NEEDS
WORK!
NEEDS
WORK!