Internet Exploitation

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Internet Exploitation Threats
Sgt. Robyn MacEachern
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Exploitation Threats

• Internet Whats out there?
• Predators
• Cyberbullying
• Desensitization
• Scams

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Teens and What are they up to?

• Communicating
• Instant Messaging/Chat/Email
• Web cams
• Trading of Digital information(music, pictures)
• Personal websites
• On-line music, videos, movies
• On-line games/PC/Nintendo/Xbox/Playstation

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Communities on the Internet

• Growing Up Digital The Rise of the Net
  Generation - Don Tapscott
• And it is through their use of the digital media
  that N-Gen will develop and superimpose its
  culture on the rest of society. Boomers stand
  back. Already these kids are learning, playing,
  communicating, working and creating communities
  very differently than their parents. They are a
  force for social transformation

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User Input

• Youtube
• Second life
• Wikipedia

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Virtual Communities
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Where they are at.
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Dont be Shy

• Lavalife
• Plentyoffish
• Doyoulookgood.com
• ratemyrack.com
• ratemybody.com

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Online Communities

• Facebook
• MSN
• Vampirefreaks
• Piczo
• Neopets
• Webkins
• Habbo

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Oblivious Parents?

• Research Studies
• Symantec 2007
• Only 49 of Canadians surveyed were aware of
  their childrens online aliases
• 41 of parents were not familiar with FACEBOOK
• 32 were unfamiliar with MySpace, 26 with
  YouTube

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Ipsos Reid Study - 2007

• Only 27 of Adults reported being totally skilled
  internet users

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Sign of Whats Out There

• Neopets pick your character
• Young kids

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Neopets..

• Other examples, video game, bully
• Nature of media

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Trouble Spots

• Passwords
• Too much Information
• Internet is real
• Webcams
• Cyberbullying

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Passwords and other Digital Information

• Includes all information that can be seen or sent
  electronically
• Passwords
• Secret questions
• Opens door for cyberbullying ie knowledge is
  power
• Pillow and feathers (Madonnas Mr. Peabodys
  Apples)

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Carelessly Sharing Digital Information

• Never post personal information/interests/photo
• This could happen to you.
• Be sure that you are dealing with someone that
  you and your parents know and trust before giving
  out any personal information about yourself
  digitally (electronically)

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Social Networking

• Search ability
• Postings
• Personal websites/spaces
• Permanent archive
• Blog online rants
• Online diary
• Online thoughts

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• www.Myspace.com (175,000,000 July 2007)
• 6 degrees of separation
• Sample
• Dec 5. 136,411,933
• I don't agree that you can't "know" someone if
  you never
• meet face to face. If you spend time with them in
  Instant
• Messenger and on the telephone I feel like you
  can know them just as well as a friend 'In Real
  Life' in fact I have friends online who I have
  never met because they live in other countries
  that may know me better than friends I have right
• here
• Laura, Brighton
• BBC News The MySpace Age

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Needle in a Big Haystack

• Incredible abilities to Search
• Define what is personal information
• Dont talk to strangers

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Search in Windows Live Spaces
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Search in Myspace
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Search for Profiles - Yahoo
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Canada 411
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It is Easy to be Someone Else

• Remember that people online may not be who they
  seem. Because you can't see or even hear the
  person it would be easy for someone to
  misrepresent him- or herself.
• Never arrange a face-to-face meeting without
  telling your parent or guardian.

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1 866-658-9022
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Buddy Lists and Instant Messaging

• Consider adding only friends you know and trust
  to your buddy list.
• Chatrooms no security

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Buddy list status
Real time conversation
Profile of buddy
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MSN Save Conversations
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The Internet is public????

• 74 of 10-14 year olds thought e-mails are
  private communications Ipsos Reid/Microsoft
  2007

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The Internet is not private

• Remember that nothing you write on the web is
  completely private, including email so be
  careful and think about what you type and who you
  tell
• Internet etiquette golden rule

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Webcams

• Why do you have one?
• Ability of other person to take screen shots
• Remote access related directly to the security
  of you connected to the internet
• Danger of bringing people into your home
• Can see information behind you

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Cyber bullying /Aggressive Behaviour

• Impact cant escape
• Variety of mediums to bully
• Unknown identity of bully
• Kids dont tell!

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Link to Toronto Star article

• They are the latest weapons in a bully's arsenal
  - computers and the Internet. For most teenagers,
  the Web is like a second home where they go to
  talk and catch up with friends. But for some of
  them, that home doesn't feel safe these days
  because bullies have been coming to call. It's a
  new and odious use of the Internet and, right
  now, there's little anyone can do to stop it.
  CBC News
• http//csriu.org/cyberbullying/index.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying

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Kids Help Phone Posts

• Kids Help Phone
• MSN cyberbullying question

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Ways of bullying/harassing others online

• Send e-mails or instant messages containing
  insults or threats directly to a person.
• Spread hurtful comments about a person to other
  through e-mail, instant messaging or postings on
  web sites and blogs, polls
• Steal passwords and send out threatening e-mails
  or instant messages using an assumed identity.
• Build web sites, often with password protection,
  to target people - students or even teachers.
• Increasingly, kids are being bullied by text
  messages sent through their cell phones.

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Harassing websites
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Examples

• David Knight (link to pdf)
• Star Wars kid (link to pdf)
• Built-in digital cameras in cell phones have
  added a new dimension to the problem. (Youtube)

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• No one is immune, including teachers!

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Dealing with Cyberbullying

• Preserve evidence this is crucial for
  identifying the bully and making a case.
• Attempt to enlist assistance from the service
  provider.
• If able to identify the bully, contact him or her
  and/or parents.
• Use available blocking technology (i.e., block
  the user on IM, email and chat.)
• In serious cases, seek assistance from the police
  (i.e., threats of physical harm, unrelenting or
  unable to stop.)

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The Law and the Internet

• Generally, if its a crime in the real world,
  its a crime on the Internet
• Unauthorized access
• Hacking
• Possession/distribution of passwords
• Mischief to Data
• Defamatory Libel
• Personation
• Threatening

• Criminal Harassment
• Child Pornography
• Hate Crimes

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Desensitization?

• www.Newgrounds.com
• Anarchists Notebook
• Peer to Peer file sharing
• Hate Crimes

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On-line suicide
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query
results
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Concerns? - Reporting?

• Parents must become involved
• Set standards of use (Online Contracts)
• Monitor Internet use (Open area)
• Use the net for help safety sites, netlingo
  dictionaries
• Internet Service providers Social Networking
  sites (Terms of Use Agreements)

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Who Investigates?

• Report any crime to local police
• Investigated as any other crime
• May call in specialists to examine data
• OPP e-Crime Section
• Internet cache
• Email evidence

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On-line resources

• Local ISP websites
• Sympatico
• Isafe.org
• Bewebaware
• Netsmartz
• Microsoft

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Safe Surfing requires.

• Knowing internet info is public for all to see
• Protect your passwords
• Webcam risks
• Too much 411
• Beware of scams/strangers
• Talk to someone teachers/parents

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Contact Information

• Sgt. Robyn MacEachern
• [phone]
• Robyn.MacEachern_at_ontario.ca

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