Learn about basic cybersecurity tips for protecting your computes, accounts and personal information. Topics include passwords and authentication, proactive defense against unwanted software and how to keep your devices current with security updates.

1. Safe Online Communications pt.
2

2. Cyber Safety 101

3. Cybersecurity Instructor
Bellevue University
Chief Security Evangelist
Cyber-AAA, LLC
Ron Woerner

4. Agenda
• Why you need to be cybersafe
• Social Engineering
• Brower Safety
• Passwords
• Malware
• Staying Cyber Safe
4
Protecting Yourself (and others)
in a Crazy Online World

5. Why Cybersafety?
Source: https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker

6. Why Cybersafety?
Source: https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

7. Who am I?
 How do you know?
 How do I prove it to you?
 Without compromising
my privacy?
Written by Peter Steiner and
published by The New Yorker on
July 5, 1993

8. Social Engineering
Preys on qualities of human nature:
• The desire to be helpful
• The tendency to trust people
• The fear of getting into trouble
• Acting without thinking
Technology is only a tool for manipulation

9. Phishing
&
Business
Email
Compromise
(BEC)

10. How they find victims

11. Email Hacking
• Finding email addresses is trivial
• Inherently insecure
• Phishing, Spear Phishing, Whaling

12. How they communicate with victims

13. HaveIBeenPwned
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

14. Web Browser Security – HTTPS
Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/181767/htg-explains-what-is-https-and-why-should-i-care/

15. Web Browser Security – Web Cookies

16. Web Browser Security – Web Cookies

17. Web Browser Security – Web Cookies

18. Web Browser Security – Trackers

19. Clearing Cache & Cookies in Chrome
Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/661729/how-
to-clear-cache-and-cookies-in-chrome/

20. Stolen User-IDs & Passwords

21. Only You can
Protect
Yourself
and Others
21
What You Can (Should) Do

22. Simple Steps for Cyber Security
• “Trust, but verify”
Be a little skeptical
• Account Security
• Multi-factor authentication
• Password keepers
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“Be Prepared”
It’s not if, but when…
• Updated your PC & apps
• Pay a little now or a lot later

23. Password Vaults
• LastPass
• KeePass
• LogMeOnce
• 1Password
• RoboForm
• Dashlane

24. Multi Factor Authentication
Two Factor Authentication
Source: https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/tig/back-basics-multi-factor-authentication

25. Malware = Malicious Software
https://www.virustotal.com/

26. Using a VPN (Virtual Private Network)
Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/133680/htg-explains-what-is-a-vpn/

27. Stay Up to Date

28. Going for help
• BBB: https://www.bbb.org/nebraska/get-consumer-help/senior-source/
• AARP, https://www.aarp.org/FraudWatchNetwork
• FBI, Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3): https://www.ic3.gov/
• CyberGenerations, The Senior Citizens’ Cyber Safety Initiative,
https://www.uscyberpatriot.org/Documents/Self%20Paced%20Guide.pdf
• CyberCrime Support Network: http://cybercrimesupport.org/
• StaySafeOnline (NCSA): http://staysafeonline.org/

30. Safe Online Communications

31. Cybersecurity Instructor
Bellevue University
rwoerner@bellevue.edu
Chief Security Evangelist
Cyber-AAA, LLC
ronw@cyber-aaa.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronwoerner/
Questions

32. COVID-19 Resources
AARP.org/Coronavirus AARP.org/FraudWatchNetwork

33. COVID-19 Resources
BBB.org/Coronavirus BBB.org/ScamTracker

34. Session 3: Internet Scams
Tuesday, May 19th
10 am or 6:30 pm
Register at BBB.org/Nebraska