WEBSITES AND EMAIL ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP By: Nahed Alnahash Dr. Wenjin Zhou

1. WEBSITES AND EMAIL ADDRESS RELATIONSHIPBy: Nahed AlnahashDr. WenjinZhou

2. Outline • Motivation • Thesis Statement • Contributions of the Thesis • Related Work • Methods • Result • Contribution • Conclusion

3. Motivation

4. Outline • Motivation • Thesis Statement • Contributions of the Thesis • Related Work • Methods • Result • Contribution • Conclusion

5. Thesis Statement • We may all be faced with dangers from using an email address as an identity of most of websites. • These dangers can be solved by changing textual password to picture password and using authentication code as a last step to access websites.

6. Outline • Motivation • Thesis Statement • Contributions of the Thesis • Related Work • Methods • Result • Contribution • Conclusion

7. Contributions of the Thesis • Writing survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to the use of their email address. • Explain and analyze the result of my survey and discuss security and privacy problems related to that.

8. Outline • Motivation • Thesis Statement • Contributions of the Thesis • Related Work • Methods • Result • Contribution • Conclusion

9. Related Work • There has been some related work on risks of using email address as an identity. [Lei et al. ,2010] wrote a survey focus on users behaviors related to the use of their email address that include 74 participants.[1] • [Lei et al. ,2010] they shown that the 67.7% of the participants using their primary email address during registration.[1] • [Florencio et al., 2007] have shown that participants use the same passwords on average in 3 different websites.[2] [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1907409#citedby [2] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74162/hotsec07.pdf

10. Outline • Motivation • Thesis Statement • Contributions of the Thesis • Related Work • Methods • Result • Contribution • Conclusion

11. Methods • My survey is focused on users’ behaviors related to the use of their email address. • Include 116 participants who responded to the survey. • It is include 21 questions. • Collected data and used it to analyze the relationship between users’ behaviors and security and privacy problems.

12. Methods Cont…. • Analyze the result based on the related to the use of primary email address. • 63% * 49% = 30.9% Using Primary Email and Same Password

13. Methods Cont… • Using primary email address as an identity on the social websites • 55% * 77% = 42.4%

14. Methods Cont… • Assuming that 25% of the participants using their Hotmail accounts in (e.g. FaceBook) • 30.9% * 42.4% * 25% = 3.3%

15. Outline • Motivation • Thesis Statement • Contributions of the Thesis • Related Work • Methods • Result • Contribution • Conclusion

16. Result • From the result that what I got : • 30.9% (using email address with same password) • 42.4% (using primary email address as identity on the social websites) • 3.3% (when assuming that 25% of the participants using primary email in FaceBook)

17. Result Cont… • From the survey I found that the 81% from the participants have 1-3 email • 41% they are remembering 3 passwords. • I recommend to change textual password to picture password

18. Result Cont… • Add second step to authorize the users by sending an verification code.

19. Contributions • Writing survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to the use of their email address. • Explain and analyze the result of my survey and discuss security and privacy problems related to that.

20. Outline • Motivation • Thesis Statement • Contributions of the Thesis • Related Work • Methods • Result • Contribution • Conclusion

21. Conclusion • I wrote a survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to using email address as identity in websites. • Analyze the result. • Recommend some ideas that will contribute to avoid hacker.

22. Questions??

23. Acknowledgements • Special thanks and appreciate for you, Dr. Wenjin Zhou. • My husband. • Susan Sabra. • All my classmate.

24. Thank you!