Conference on cyber security and prevention – Live Blogging

10:00

I am in the room, ready for the “Conference on cyber security and prevention”. It will begin at 10:30

It still time to register if you want to participate (in French only).

Speaker: Captain Frédérick Gaudreau, manager of the computer crime coordination office, Sûreté du Québec

Facilitator: Denis Talbot

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10:10

Denis Talbot & Captain Frédérick Gaudreau are getting ready for the conference

10:30

Denis Talbot ...

start the webconference

Introducing is new friends. Dominique Vien, Minister for Government Services.

50 participants in the room.

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10:35

Dominic Viens. She is the “new friends” of  Denis Talbot.

She is the mother of a teenager who said WOW about her mother meeting Denis Talbot. As I wrote in another post, Denis Talbot is a good choice as a spokesman.

Dominic Viens is talking about the growing  online offering of the Quebec government.

ClicSECUR is use by the government to secure the access to those services.

The message of the Minister is clear. Enjoy the power of Internet, but enjoy it securely.

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10:40

Captain Frédérick Gaudreau, manager of the computer crime coordination office, Sûreté du Québec

Is talking about fishing.

Fishing is using HTML email. So it looks like regular email from a business.

Whit the information in hand, They are able to send a personalize email.

Redirecting the users on specific Web site.

They ask for specific information like your ID or password.

After that, it is easy to use your identity.

They send many millions of email. They only need a few response…

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Popular fishing: You have a lot a money waiting for you in Africa…… Did you received it?

Now it is easy too find information about anybody. Just Google them. We Google ourselves to see what’s available online. People give to much information.

The policeman finds more information online than on their own database!!!

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Botnets

It is a network of computer that are compromised and used by hackers.

They can use your bandwidth and your computer without you knowledge.

Send spam

Send fishing email

Deny of service attack.

Botnets are hard to find.

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On the ISIQ site, their is a list of simple thing to do to protect your PC and your identity online.  One of them is to have an up to date antivirus.

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11:20

Conference is over. The question period is beginning.

Kids are the sysadmin of the family network. Adults are not always able to guide their children.

How many in the police team : around 20. add the GRC team and the rest of the policeman team.

Question : What’s new? Is there new technique since last year campaign?  The real question is, how come people are still victim of thw same old attack?

Is there a government web site where you can refer fishing ? Yes http://www.phonebusters.com/

Don’t put the computer in the bedroom.

Have interest in what you kids are doing. Ask questions. Guide them. Kids are left alone online. You have to tell them that Internet is a serious thing. It is a good tool, but their is some risk that they should know.

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11:48

The conference is over. Thanks to Denis Talbot, Captain Frédérick Gaudreau and Dominique Vien, Minister for Government Services.

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Todays blogging team (and Twitter team)

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From right to left: Pascale Soucy, Denis Francois Gravel, Sandra Bellefoy, Mario Asselin

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