Introduction:
Introduction What is Instant Message (IM)
Security Issues associated with IM
Technical aspect
IM worms
Message encryption
Non-technical aspect
Individual Misrepresentation
IM Worms:
IM Worms Ways to Replication
Malicious file transfer
Malicious URL in a text Message
Exploitation of vulnerabilities in OS or other software application
Technology to prevent IM worms
Shutdown server temporarily
Message filtering
Disable the most-connected users
Message throttling
Message Encryption:
Message Encryption Why we need message encryption and the draw backs
Existing method
Long term public key
Off-The-Record Message
Long term public key and temporary session key
Non-technical Aspect:
Non-technical Aspect Individual Misrepresentation
John124 can convince Jack that he is John123.
An IM account represents a company while the owner of the IM account is no more employed by the company.
Conclusion and future work:
Conclusion and future work New Proposal
Message throttling on URL or transferring files.
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA)
Do not rely on computer to do every thing for you.
Table 1: Average activity of each type of communication over a 15 minutes interval.