User Information Leakage on P2P Networks

In this video, an Administrator demonstrates how people foolishly enable their entire windows "My Documents" folder for sharing on P2P programs such as Limewire, eMule etc. Incidentally, as this is also the folder where most Windows applications such as Microsoft Word store the user saved files by default, a lot of confidential information about the user might get disclosed. In this video we see how user's driver licenses, social security numbers, personal photos are all available on P2P networks without even the user guessing they are out there!

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net