How to make your mobile phone safe from hackers

How to make your mobile phone safe from hackers

David Strom

@dstrom

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Agenda

• Scary things hackers can do with your phone

• I have nothing to hide:!

• Don’t keep your head in the sand

• What things you can do to protect yourself

• Balancing privacy and security

Scary things about mobile phone

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USA Today Smishing Video

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“Man-in-the-middle” attack

Mother Horrified to Learn Hackers Put Live Feed of Daughters' Bedroom Online

How to respond to robocalls

• Register with DoNotCall.Gov. Use a call-blocking service such as Hiya or Truecaller

• Never wire money when requested

• Don’t interact with the robocaller: Not even “hello”

• Try to call them back

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Avira, Avast, ESET, Kaspersky, Sophos

Additional suggestions

• Don’t pick some tech that is too difficult to manage

• Change one or two habits at a time until you feel comfortable

• Eliminate personal info on Facebook et al. (e.g. Jan 1 “birthday”)

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Good luck and stay safe!

David Strom

(314) 277-7832

[email protected]

Twiiter: @dstrom

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Slides available:

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