Protecting information„New Literacy Set” Project

2015-2017

In UK in 2015. were:•2.46 million cyber incidents •2.11 million victims of cyber crime•UK businesses reported losses of £1,079,447,765 in the past year

• In 2015, the maximum total annualized cost od cyber-crime committed against US companies amounted to 65.05 million U.S.dollars

• 35% of the global cybercrime were U.S. fraud victims

•Legislative inhomogeneity makes it virtually impossible for an unanimous judgement of the criminal events that is then treated differently depending on the country.

•Criminal acts could be conducted in foreign countries.

Lifecycle

Collect and hold

Handling

Assess the risks

Protect your informations

Destroy

1. Consider What Personal InformationIs Important

• Personal information includes personal data:

• Identification data

• Contact data

• Physical characteristics data

• Ideology data

2. Privacy By Design

• Malware – malicious software

• Where malware comes from?– Internet

– e-mail

– Hacked websites

– Games demos

– Music files

– Toolbars

– Software

– Free subscriptions

• How to recognize malware?

– Slow computer

– Pop-ups

– Spam

– Frequent crashes

• How to remove malware?

– Use a reliable malware removal tool!

• How to prevent malware?

– Use powerful antivirus and anti-malware software

– Don’t open email attachments from unknown orunexpected sources

3. If In Doubt, Throw It Out

Online shopping statistics

• 40% of global internet users, or more than 1 billion people, have bought products or goods online

• The U.S. e-commerce economy is worth $349 billion while China’s e-commerce economy is worth $562.66 billion

• 8 out of 10 consumers will shop online if offered free shipping

Online shopping statistics

• Online retail sales in the U.K. reached an estimated £52.25 billion in 2015, with the average shopper spending £1,174

• 40% of shoppers consult 3 or more channels, often in the process of shopping, before making a purchase; it goes to show the increasing importance of having an online presence in as many places as possible

Ecommerce customers in Spain

• Credit cards amount for more than half of all online transactions, followed by cash (32%), electronic bank transfer (20%) and eWallet(14%).

• The most important payment option in Spain seems to be 4B, which has 20 million cards circulating amongst the Spanish population.

• The credit and debit cards of Euro6000 are also widely used.

Ecommerce customers in Spain

Ecommerce customers in Spain

• Based on data from from Instituo Nacional de Estadictica, about 22% of the Spanish population bought something in the last three months

• About 10.7 million Spanish people (31% of the population aged 16 to 74 years old) ordered something online in the last year.

Top 10 Online Shopping Sites in the World

Online payment methods

Phishing

• What does a phishing email message looklike?

4. Stay Updated

• Install anti-virus/malware software

• Keep your antivirus software up to date

• Run regularly scheduled scans with your anti-virus software

• Keep your operating system current

• Secure your network

• Think before you click

4. Stay Updated

• Keep your personal information safe

• Don’t use open wi-fi

• Back up your files

• Use multiple string passwords

5. Assessing the risk

• Metadata – „data about data”

6. Taking appropriate steps and putting strategies intoplace to protect personal information

• Use a unique password for each of your importantaccounts

• Use a mix of letters, numbers and symbols in yourpasswords

• Don’t use personal information or common words as a password

• Make sure your backup password options are up-to-date and secure in case you need to reset or forgetyour passord

• Keep your passwords secure and don’t leave notes withyour passwords to various sites on your computer ordesk

7. Destroying personal information

• Wipe the drive completely

• Delete only your sensitive files

• Destroy the hard drive