In the past getting information was complicated time consuming and expensive.
Today all sorts of information is available about almost anybody and accessing it doesn't require money.
All it takes is to create an account on any given social networking site AMANOR Internet only friends
there could be people who only pretend to be normal users
creating a false identity is really easy in the Internet.
Why would anyone want to do it.
To gain our trust and to get to know us better.
Which makes an attack on our computer system stand a better chance of succeeding.
I'm talking about a socio technical attack here.
Let's see the amount of information that you can find yourself on the web.
To do this other than look at public Web sites and services attackers also use specialized tools that
demand for information is so huge that there are special paid information research services dedicated
to finding information.
Let's start with a site called Iken stuck you in the slide you can see how the service looked when it
was active.
It was shut down after a year we'll visited later and we'll see why it was closed.
The site was geared towards raising awareness that posting a picture on social media pages revealed
not only the image itself but also disclosed information on when and where it was taken.
All current smartphones and many professional cameras automatically add geolocation data to pictures
and their applications and tools on the Internet that let you view the information embedded in images.
I can stalk you tracked the information from pictures published on social media pages for a year.
As you can see tons of confidential information on people was disclosed every minute.
This is a relatively harmless feature in some cases but can be really risky and others
as it turns out.
This poses a great risk for some groups of people
American soldiers who were stationed in Iraq for example.
Take pictures of themselves standing next to a new chopper and uploaded to a social networking service.
The pictures were seen by terrorists who would use the embedded coordinates to identify the location
of the base and where the choppers flew.
This ended in the destruction of four choppers.
This is why you need to think before you post personal information on the Web.
We'll come back to I can talk you in a moment.