Presentation Topics

01 - How to Protect Yourself and Your Organization from Computer Crime

This popular session focuses on recent trends of online fraud, internet scams, and ways that suspects steal identity. The presentation includes the details of how hackers commit their crimes and what any person or business can do to protect themselves. The audience will learn immediately how password hackers, debit card skimmers, key loggers, email scams, cellular telephones, security questions, meta data, and file sharing networks are an emerging threat against them. Live examples of 'hacking' into information will shock the audience, while detailed solutions will be displayed on how to stop the threat. Free software applications will be presented toward the end of the session.

Minimum Length: 1 Hour

Full Length: 3 Hours

DVD: Yes

02 - Locating Personal Information Online

This presentation will show the audience how to "dig" into the internet for personal information about themselves, their children, or others. While popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook are covered in great detail, including the ability to access "private" data, the presentation goes much deeper into the vast resources available online for researching personal information. The information gathered will give a surprising glimpse of what anyone with an internet connection can find out about you! Over 200 sources of online information will be discussed. Aside from web sites, other technology such as digital camera data, Geo-location services, social API's, and live communication monitoring will be explained.

Minimum Length: 1 Hour

Full Length: 5 Hours

DVD: Yes

03 - Online Investigations for the Private Sector (New)

This new session is similar to my Law Enforcement course, but is designed to fit the needs of private organizations that use the internet to conduct various corporate investigations. This may include large corporations that investigate employee issues, product information leaks, threats, or simply monitoring the "chatter" of a competitor. Small organizations can use this as well to recruit and hire employees, identify risks with current staff, or as a tool to monitor their business on the internet. Preferably a full day, this training explains over 200 web sites that can be used to find all publicly available information on a target name or business. Techniques for finding information that is assumed "private" will be demonstrated on many social networks. Additionally, free software applications are presented to automate the process of gathering data.

Minimum Length: 3 Hours

Full Length: 8 Hours

DVD: No

04 - Exposed Data Through File Sharing Networks (New)

This new session explains how file sharing networks, also called "peer to peer" networks are a common vulnerability for personal and business computers. When users run these applications, many files on the computer are unknowingly shared to the world. A demonstration will display how easy it is to download private files from personal computers many miles away. Private documents, photos, and financial information will be downloaded and examined live. If one of your children or employees have downloaded any of these "safe" applications, your data is at risk right now. After identifying the problems, detailed solutions for any personal or business network are explained and tested. This is the first of several new presentations created for shorter sessions, less than one hour in length.

Minimum Length: 30 Minutes

Full Length: 45 Minutes

DVD: No

05 - Protecting Yourself on Wireless Networks (New)

Wireless networks are everywhere. We use them at hotels, coffee shops, airports, and our homes. This session identifies all of the vulnerabilities that are present on these newtorks, and demonstrates how hackers exploit them. Live demonstrations will show how your passwords to web sites are visible on other people's computers, how the password to your home network may be "cracked" in minutes, and how someone on the same free wifi as you can read all of your email without you knowing. A detailed explanation of how to fix all of these issues is presented in an easy to understand format. All attendees will be able to use wireless networks without fear once these safety techniques are learned and deployed. This is the second of several new presentations created for shorter sessions, less than one hour in length.

Minimum Length: 45 Minutes

Full Length: 60 Minutes

DVD: No

06 - Protecting the Online Reputation of your Business

This interactive session identifies and demonstrates several methods of protecting your business' presence and image on the internet. Techniques to search for public and private commentary, reviews, and various information relevant to your business will be conducted live including methods to automate the process and bring the results to you. These queries will discover publicly available information that could harm an organization including complaints about service, employee information, comments from individuals, photos that can be tracked to the company, employee activity online, employee profiles, private emails, inaccurate information, confidential documents, and even private customer data exposure. Previous demonstrations have displayed that entire drives full of company documents were visible online by anyone with an internet connection. The audience will learn how to monitor social networking sites for mention of their business, how to respond to negative information posted to online communities, and how to control the information presented to potential customers through search engines and mobile applications. Solutions to solve all of these issues will be presented, as well as direct links to the sites that will help one identify the problems.

Minimum Length: 60 Minutes

Full Length: 120 Minutes

DVD: Yes

07 - Eliminating Traces of your identity on the Internet

This presentation acknowledges that way too much information is available about each and every one of us on the Internet. The focus is eliminating as much information as we can. The audience will observe each step of this process and learn the results of the attempts. A sample of some of the sites that will be demonstrated is located at THIS LINK. This presentation is a great starting point to understanding how data mining sites are collecting your information. This approach will create awareness with the audience of the way our habits help those that sell our information.

Minimum Length: 60 Minutes

Full Length: 60 Minutes

DVD: No

08 - Child Safety on the Internet for Parents & Teens

This session discusses how predators lure children into becoming victims and how parents can stop this from happening. I go way beyond what has been seen on Dateline's 'To Catch a Predator"'. I also cover Cell Phones, MySpace, FaceBook, Cyber Bullying, Chat Rooms, and other forms of communication that predators use. Most of this session is conducted live on the Internet with real examples of the procedures discussed. Parents will gain a deeper understanding of the advanced dangers on the internet, and acquire useful knowledge of simple steps that can be taken to prevent their children from becoming victims. Teens will see real life examples of what happens when they let their guard down. While many students realize that predators are present, they do not realize the amount of information a predator can receive without contact with the victim. I discuss photos on the internet and advanced ways that predators use search engines to stalk their prey. I also have versions of this session for only parents or teens.

Minimum Length: 60 Minutes

Full Length: 120 Minutes

DVD: Yes

09 - Computer Maintenance and Repair

This helpful class teaches people of all ages how to maintain their computers and how to clean out all the junk that slows their computers down. Techniques shown will identify and remove the various viruses and malicious software present in most computers today. Experiments are done live in class and everyone should gain a new understanding of why their computer has 'aged'. Free software solutions will be presented toward the end of the class.

Minimum Length: 60 Minutes

Full Length: 120 Minutes

DVD: Yes

Full day sessions are availble. Details HERE.

DVDs are an optional purchase as part of the live presentation or training session. Each member of the audience can take home a personalized DVD similar to the event at an additional cost of only $10 per disc. Contact sales@computercrimeinfo.com for more details.