SECURITY &PRIVACY

IN
How one can know about us on Internet
Where we are Today On The Social Networks
 ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN “DIGITAL INDIA”
CAMPAIGN

 The initiative of making digital

India is really great. And, social
media is playing crucial role in
helping India evolve into its
digital form. Today the
government sector designing its
online portals to give
information to people. Coming
future of digital India campaign
is totally depend on Social
media.
 SECURITY & PRIVACY
Social networks are the important part of everyone’s life today. We use hundreds of Social
networks/medias in our daily life. We share lot of our data on those medias And the tragedy is
that we don’t know what we share in flow of using that media.

There should be some questions that we should ask our self like :

1) What information we are going to share ?

2) What happens if this information get send to wrong hands ?
3) Who can access our files besides of only that media on which we are sharing information.
4) In what ways one should use our information ?
5) In turn what about security and privacy of our data on this network/platform ?
TIPS TO MAINTAIN SECURITY AND PRIVACY ON SOCIAL
NETWORKS/MEDIA/SITES

Please read Terms and conditions carefully. Its bit difficult and time consuming
task but at least just have a look.

Go to privacy settings in your account don’t rely on default settings.

Please do not click useless links , posts like “Check your health” and so on.

Install a good antivirus software in your laptop and phone.

Turn off your location . some sites even keep track of your activities in offline
world but turning off location will at least do the least possible loss.

Don’t forget to setup security answers.

Never leave your account logged in another user may use your account. By doing
this your are inviting cyber criminals to steal your data.

Always try to use strong passwords for social sites and try to change passwords
regularly . Never ever set same passwords for multiple sites.
HOW TO CHECK SECURITY OF SOCIAL
SITES???

1) Check the shortened URL using the services that are available
online like “Sucuri” to check weather the link is secure or not.

2) Use services like URL Void or MyWOT to check safety status of

link.

3) Check the link with “Scanurl”.

4) Google safe search is the best way.

Aspects of security in social networks
All this are have eye on us
 FACEBOOK RECENT DATA LOSS INCIDENT

Facebook is one of the greatest world famous social networks.

But most of the times it has to face data loss problem.

Current data loss incident of facebook.

Security expert “Bob Diachenko “ discovered that a database

containing personal information of more than 267 million
Facebook users had been left exposed.

The exposed data included names , phone numbers, and Facebook

IDs. Hackers in Vietnam are believed to be responsible.
A MODEL FOR NETWORK SECURITY
 UID
(Unique Identification Number)

A Study conducted in 2009 by AT & T Labs and Worcester

Polytechnic Institute found that the unique identification code assigned to
users by social networks can be matched with behavior tracked by cookies.

This means advertisers and others are able to use information gleaned
from social networks to build a profile of user’s life, including linking browsing
habits to one's true identity.
KEY CONCEPTS OF WHATSAPP RELATED TO
SECURITY & PRIVACY

 Whatsapp Web Malware

Unencrypted Backups

Fake News

Whatspp status

Whatsapp security and privacy

Share & Forward

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