1. Mobile Communications
Parental Controls Workshop
ICT Week St Maarten
15-20 August, 2010
Making technology work securely for you
and your family!
Anton Kaska, Vice President
Security Business, US, Canada and Caribbean

2. Agenda
•Introduction
•Terms
•Concerns (Threats)
•A layered and holistic approach
•Question/Answer period
•Demonstration
•Open forum

3. Introduction
• Security Professional
• Over 20 years overseas in Europe,
Asia and the Middle East
• Parent

4. Firewall
Internet
Firewall
http://www.sans.org/security-resources/glossary-of-terms/
Terms
•SPAM/UCE
•SMS/MMS
•Phishing
•Spyware
•Virus
•Bearers

5. Concerns (Threats)
• Uncontrolled or excessive costs
• Exposure to unacceptable
“communications” (religious, sexual in
nature or predatory)
• Technologic Threats to user
• Infrastructure threats
• Moral/Social-family members

6. Where are the tech-threats?
Spam
SMS Spam
accounting for 18%
of total traffic in
some locations
Knowing the threats and how to control over your technology is imperative
Knowledge is key
Email
Threats via email
are prevalent
Peer to Peer
Can account for
20% of uplink
traffic
Web (HTTP)
Increasing Phishing
& Malware hosting
Virus
MMS Virus
infection rates
approaching 14%
Network Availability
Dangers to the
network and
subscribers(incl. home
network)
Spyware
Copying of
messages, call
eavesdropping and
bugging of rooms.
6 © Nokia Siemens Networks

7. What are the tech-threats?
7 © Nokia Siemens Networks
35 Million Spam Emails Sent
28 people bought products.
$ 3M
in pharmaceutical sales in 2008
Conversion rate of 0.000008%
PC Spam
Mobile Spam1,000,000
28 people
signed up to service
SMS Sent
78,700
recipients
called number
31,000
recipients
replied to SMS $ 25M
in one 3 day attack
Fake Prize Draw text message sent in a single 3 day
attack in 2009
An analysis of a single Operator’s cost
Conversion rate of 0.01%Total $124,000Total $24,800,000
Total $500
Total $5,000

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Example: SMS Phishing Fraud
Mobikama.com
/www.google.co.in/gwt/x/ts?ei=z9vlstwmozqc7q
pazazbag
&;source=m
&;u=http://m.mobikama.com/
&;whp=122383b343f;initial_page_loaded
&;wsc=tc
&;wsi=396cd70b33f3cbdd
User receives
WAP Push
User clicks link
to Web Site
WAP Push has
“hot button” link follow
on many handsets
URL Embedded in Google
search string avoids site
blocking put in place
“Call” Link to
Intl Premium Rate
Curious subscriber clicks
Link and call is placed to
Reverse Charge line
Unexpected
Behaviour
= Mobile Virus
User not seen “call:” links
thinks virus has infected
handset
Website embedded in Google
search URL requires intelligent
traffic parsing.

9. Leveraging Location Based
Services
9 © Nokia Siemens Networks

10. Layered and Holistic
Approach
The non-tech bits
• The Onion
Regulators
Providers
and YOU
ho·lis·tic (h-lstk)
a. Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.
b. Concerned with wholes rather than analysis or separation into parts: holistic medicine; holistic ecology.

11. Questions and Answers
Interim thoughts

12. Demonstration
A sample parental control portal
REAL WORLD

13. Open Forum
A Citizens Discussion

14. Closing
• Take an active role as a parent
• Technologic Threats to user
• Thank you to the Caribbean
Telecommunications Union (CTU) and
my friends in the Netherland Antilles