WEBSITES AND ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP By: Nahed Alnahash Dr. Wenjin Zhou

Outline  Motivation  Thesis Statement  Contributions of the Thesis  Related Work  Methods  Result  Contribution  Conclusion 2

websites Dangers Motivation 3

Outline  Motivation  Thesis Statement  Contributions of the Thesis  Related Work  Methods  Result  Contribution  Conclusion 4

Thesis Statement  We may all be faced with dangers from using an address as an identity of most of websites.  These dangers can be solved by changing textual password to picture password and using authentication code as a last step to access websites. 5

Outline  Motivation  Thesis Statement  Contributions of the Thesis  Related Work  Methods  Result  Contribution  Conclusion 6

Contributions of the Thesis 1.Writing survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to the use of their address. 2. Explain and analyze the result of my survey and discuss security and privacy problems related to that. 7

Outline  Motivation  Thesis Statement  Contributions of the Thesis  Related Work  Methods  Result  Contribution  Conclusion 8

Related Work  There has been some related work on risks of using address as an identity. [Lei et al.,2010] wrote a survey focus on users behaviors related to the use of their address that include 74 participants.[1]  [Lei et al.,2010] they shown that the 67.7% of the participants using their primary address during registration.[1]  [Florencio et al., 2007] have shown that participants use the same passwords on average in 3 different websites.[2] [1] [2] 9

Outline  Motivation  Thesis Statement  Contributions of the Thesis  Related Work  Methods  Result  Contribution  Conclusion 10

Methods  My survey is focused on users’ behaviors related to the use of their address.  Include 116 participants who responded to the survey.  It is include 21 questions.  Collected data and used it to analyze the relationship between users’ behaviors and security and privacy problems. 11

Methods Cont….  Analyze the result based on the related to the use of primary address.  63% * 49% = 30.9% 12 Using Primary and Same Password

Methods Cont…  Using primary address as an identity on the social websites  55% * 77% = 42.4% 13

Methods Cont… 14  Assuming that 25% of the participants using their Hotmail accounts in (e.g. FaceBook)  30.9% * 42.4% * 25% = 3.3%

Outline  Motivation  Thesis Statement  Contributions of the Thesis  Related Work  Methods  Result  Contribution  Conclusion 15

Result  From the result that what I got :  30.9% (using address with same password)  42.4% (using primary address as identity on the social websites)  3.3% (when assuming that 25% of the participants using primary in FaceBook) 16

Result Cont…  From the survey I found that the 81% from the participants have 1-3  41% they are remembering 3 passwords.  I recommend to change textual password to picture password 17

Result Cont…  Add second step to authorize the users by sending an verification code. 18

Contributions 1.Writing survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to the use of their address. 2. Explain and analyze the result of my survey and discuss security and privacy problems related to that. 19

Outline  Motivation  Thesis Statement  Contributions of the Thesis  Related Work  Methods  Result  Contribution  Conclusion 20

Conclusion  I wrote a survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to using address as identity in websites.  Analyze the result.  Recommend some ideas that will contribute to avoid hacker. 21

Questions?? 22

Acknowledgements  Special thanks and appreciate for you, Dr. Wenjin Zhou.  My husband.  Susan Sabra.  All my classmate. 23

Thank you! 24