David Benford - hostile observations through social media

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15/10/2015 1 Hostile observations through social media DAVID BENFORD MSC MANAGING DIRECTOR, BLACKSTAGE FORENSICS LTD

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Hostile observations through social mediaDAVID BENFORD MSCMANAGING DIRECTOR, BLACKSTAGE FORENSICS LTD

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Threat Landscape is Changing…..

Criminal objectives:To gain access to a person to:

threaten

harm or/and abuse them

stalk

theft

force them to carry out specific actions

(via Blackmail/ extortion/ bribery)

engage them as an insider threatIdentity theft

Misinformation

gather intelligence

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Global Mobile Data:

• 2012 + 70%

• 2013 + 81%

• 2014 + 69%

• 2014: 30 exabytes!

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Geographic Data:

Exif data in photos

IP Addresses

Apps & Social network geo-locational data

Locations visually shown in photographs

Things people say

Cloud

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…but I don’t use social media!

Should you be concerned?

Children’s Nanny

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OSM Data Leakage:

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Thank you for your attention! My contact details are:[email protected]:+44 1283 762559M+44 7986 637021