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Glenn K. Bard Public Agency Training Council tech Chief Technical Officer PA State Trooper – Retired NCMEC – Project ALERT CISSP, En. CE, CFCE, CHFI, A+, Network+, Security+, ACE gbard@patctech. com
PATCtech Glenn Bard, CTO Scott Lucas, Instructor and Examiner Steve Dempsey, Instructor Kathy Enriquez, Instructor Brian Sprinkle, Case Manager – examiner James Alsup, Director PATC Stefani Lucas, Marketing Director
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FACEBOOK Facebook was founded in February 2004, by college student Mark Zuckerberg. • It is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. • The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. • Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives and half of the users return daily. www. PATCtech. com 4
FACEBOOK History: • Initially Facebook was set up as an exclusive network for Harvard students. Within 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. • Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook. • Within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. www. PATCtech. com 5
FACEBOOK History: • Napster cofounder, Sean Parker, began working with Zuckerberg. • Parker provided the introduction to their first investor, Peter Thiel, cofounder of Pay. Pal , who invested $500, 000 into Facebook. www. PATCtech. com 6
Facebook • The most popular Social Networking Site in the US • What exactly is a “social networking site”? • IPO in February 2012 • 3 months later sold hit market capitalization of 104 billion • July 13, 2015 market cap hit 250 billion becoming the fastest company to reach that value • Q 3 2015 market cap “soared past” 300 billion
Some facts: • 1. 65 billion monthly active Facebook users (4/27/2016) • 1. 01 billion users login daily (11/4/2015) • Average time per Facebook visit is 20 minutes • 300 million photos uploaded daily • 25 to 34 years of age is the most common demographic • Alexa rank of #3 as of 5/11/2016.
Some facts: • Percentage of drivers who admit to Facebook while driving: 27 • Percentage of 15 -34 year olds who use Facebook: 91 • Amount of data Facebook stores: 300 Petabytes • Thursday and Friday are the busiest days • From 1 to 3 PM are the busiest times
Subsidiaries owned by Facebook: • Instagram – We will learn about in detail a bit later. • Whats. App – Proprietary cross platform instant messaging client for smartphones. Has a user base of over 1 Billion, making it the most popular in the world. Purchased by Facebook for 19. 3 Billion. • Oculus VR – Virtual reality technology company. Purchased by Facebook for 2 Billion. • Private. Core – Security company that develops software to secure server data via encryption.
Facebook • Facebook will take whatever information you want to give it • Remember, it’s in business to sell you, not because it wants to make it easy for you to keep in touch with Aunt Mary
Other Facebook stats • Number of Facebook employees: 12, 691 (2015) • Total 2015 revenue: $17, 928, 000
Facebook • First, your timeline • Data that is specific to you
Facebook • Now, your newsfeed • Anything that is posted by or about anyone who is your friend, or someone or something you’ve “liked”
Facebook • Facebook has an instant messaging function
Facebook • It also has email-type communication
Facebook • Facebook has traditionally not been the easiest company to deal with, but they’re getting better
Facebook • Remember, none of the information that is submitted to Facebook during the creation of a profile is verified • What information is going to be useful to us?
Facebook • You can search Facebook for an amazing amount of information. • • • Victim Suspect Posts Comments Tags Photos
Facebook • Best trick, get all IP log ins. Why? • How can we search Facebook? • Via Legal Process • Via the website
Undercover Account Step 1: Create an email account from a free email service (Gmail, Hot. Mail, Yahoo, etc. ) Do Not use your department Domain for your account. Step 2: Use new email address to create Facebook profile. Female profiles seem to work better than male. Step 3: Use the profile, upload images, news links, check in at locations etc. Step 4: Search for people of interest. (i. e. drug gangs, pedophiles etc. ) in order to “Friend” them. Step 5: Block younger profiles from your profile, UNLESS that is your target demographic.
Instagram • Created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and officially launched in October 2010. • Started as a mobile Photo-sharing application. • Hit 100 million users in April 2012. • Purchased in April 2012 by Facebook for 1 Billion dollars. • Hit 300 million users in December 2014. • Currently has an Alexa rank of 24.
Instagram • Statistically: • 50 / 50 i. Phone vs Android users • 68 / 32 female vs male users • TBT – Throwback Thursday is very popular among users. • The top Instagram account is “Instagram”. • The top individual account is Selena Gomez.
Instagram – The page:
Instagram – A Post:
Instagram – A Post: • And if you see a comment, and want to follow it to the person making the comment, just click on the username:
Instagram – A Post:
Instagram – That user:
Instagram – Investigation: • The investigative procedures are the same as Facebook, and any legal process must be sent direction to Facebook:
Soapbox time • Everything you put on the internet is available to EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE for THE REMAINDER OF TIME. • Lots of people get themselves jammed up on sites like Facebook
Preservation of online evidence • Some lower-tech options • Screenshots • “Print. Screen” key • Webshot • Video capture software • Snagit • Camtasia
Webshot www. websitescreenshots. com
Snag. It www. techsmith. com
Better options • Website mirroring software • HTTrack • Pagesucker • Scrap. Book (Firefox add-on)
Scrap. Book • Mozilla Firefox add-on • Allows us to navigate to a page, and then begin the capture process
Scrap. Book
Scrap. Book
Scrap. Book
Facebook • What if we want to copy someone's page that gives us consent?
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