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- 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
- 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
- 8. sdf dsf sf sdf 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