1. Social Media: What You Should Know

2. Overview Survey Results Video: 6 Degrees of Information
What is our digital identity?
Methods for gaining access to our personal information
Video: Think Before You Post
How to Protect Yourself

3. Time Spent on Internet

4. Social Media Sites

5. Six Degrees of Information
Think before you post:

6. Your Digital Identity Face Ethnicity Voice Address Fingerprint
Education
Gender
Language
Date of Birth
Affiliations
Place of Birth
Interests
Mother’s Maiden Name
Hobbies
Family
Averages:
61 text messages
121 s
Per day
26 apps used per month
5 social media accounts
This means, we are constantly putting data and information out on the internet and we may not realize what we are sharing

7. Your Personal Information
Open source – You post it online…or your friends/family do
People can gain quit a bit just by searching your social media accounts. Most common are date of birth, address, mother’s maiden name, school, schedules and places you visit

8. Your Personal Information
Theft
Think of all the information on your phone and computer
Phishing
Criminals s or friend you pretending to be someone else
Clicking on an – can be targeted to you specifically

9. Your Personal Information
Hacking
Large scale data breaches can reveal your data and PII

10. Your Personal Information
Passwords
Easy passwords like password123
Phishing scams
Same password used for all sites
Locations
Check in features
Filters used with the location
Embedded in photos
Pictures with personal belongings

11. Think Before You Post

12. How to Protect Yourself
Remove personal information
Do a sweep through all of your social media accounts and remove your PII
Update your privacy settings
Set your profile to private
Remove 3rd party apps
Hide your friends list

13. How to Protect Yourself
Setup a different that is only for social media
Do not share your location
Do not let others tag you

14. How to Protect Yourself
Strong Passwords!
Create a strong password
8+ characters long
Include numbers, capital letters and symbols
Use a different password for each account
Change it often
Consider using multi-factor authentication
Never give it out!

15. 6 Clicks Demo

17. Project Resources
Applied Fundamentals Consulting LLC presentation on information security
Cybertipline.com
Coby Persin – The Dangers of Social Media

18. GPS Info Sites that Remove GPS (EXIF) Data
Sites that do not remove EXIF Data
Instagram
Snapchat
Facebook
Tumblr
Twitter*
Picasa
Pinterest
Photobucket
eBay
Dropbox
Google+
When unsure, it is always best to remove your GPS location from all images shared on the internet