How Secure Are You When You Use the Internet?

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How Secure Are You When You Use the Internet?
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Overview

• What is the Internet? And what it is commonly
  used for?
• Parents vs. Teens/Kids Use
• Ways of accessing the Internet
• Common cyber threats
• Facts
• Whats being done? What you can do?
• Questions

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What is the Internet?

• A communication system that connects computers
  and computer networks all over the world
• Popular communication tool (like the telephone)
• Familiar community environment (like the mall,
  movie theater)
• Other names Web, Information Highway, The Net,
  Cyberspace
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqv0XCaUkfNk

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What is the Internet Used For?

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• Parents 
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•         vs.
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•             Teens/Kids

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Your Parents

• Primarily for work-related activities
• Shop/Sell
• Online banking
• Catch up on news
• Communication
• Email (Electronic mail)
• Co-workers
• Family/Friends
• Child's Teachers

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YOU

• Education, socialize and entertainment
• Education
• Skill Building/Training
• Researching
• Encyclopedias/magazines/newspapers
• Homework help
• School reports
• Socializing
• Email
• Social Networks
• Instant messaging

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YOU continued. . .

• Gaming
• Surfing
• Downloading
• Music
• Pictures
• Videos

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Ways of Accessing the Internet

• Personal Computers
• Home, school, library, café, friends house
• Mobile devices
• Cell phone, other mobile devices
• Game consoles

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Cyber Threats

• Cyber bullying
• What it is
• Types
• Harassment, Flaming, Denigration, Impersonation,
  Outing and Trickery, Exclusion, Cyberstalking
• Cyber predators
• What it is
• Meeting strangers online
• Threats this can lead to
• Facts of incidents

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Cyber Bullying Example

• Amanda Marcuson of Birmingham, Michigan
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• Reported girls in her 8th grade class for
  stealing something that belonged to her 
• Instant messages full of ugly insults were sent
  to her home computer 
• Instant messages were delivered to her phone and
  by the end of the evening she had 50 instant
  messages
• People can say a lot worse things to someone
  online than when they're actually talking to them

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Cyber Threats continued. . .

• Online Scams
• What it is
• Found in websites, email, chat rooms, message
  boards
• Auction Fraud, Phishing scams,Nigerian 419
  Letter,Postal Forwarding/Reshipping
  scams,"Congratulations, You've won an Xbox (iPod,
  TV, etc)"
• Identity theft
• What it is 
• Kids can be victims too!

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Identity Theft Example

• Tina Price of Uniontown, Pennsylvania
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• Used the names of her children (ages 7 and 2) to
  apply for 25 credit cards
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• Charged with 64 counts of identity theft
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• Also used her father's personal information to
  submit 39 credit applications

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Cyber Threats continued. . .

• SPAM
• What it is
• Viruses/Spyware
• What it is
• Plagiarism
• What it is
• Exposure to inappropriate
•     material

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How to Protect Yourself

• Cyber bullying
• Tell an adult (Teacher, Parent, Police, etc.)
• Cyber predators
• Privatize your social networking webpage
• Tell an adult (Teacher, Parent, Police, etc.)
• SPAM
• Don't open emails from senders you do not know
• Virus/Spyware
• Use virus/spyware protection software (Symantec,
  McAfee, etc)
• Plagerism
• No copying!

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How to Protect Yourself continued. . .

• Online scams
• Don't open emails from senders you do not know
• Be careful what you click on a website
• Identity theft
• Change passwords regularly
• Use virus protection
• Close Internet browsers
• Do not check boxes that save your username and
  password
• Be aware of your surroundings

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What's being done?

• FBI
• Connecticut Computer Crimes Task Force (CCCTF)
  92 others
• Schools are monitoring kids computer use
• Parents are setting parental controls on home
  computers
• Google's SafeSearch

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What You Can Do!

• Hey kids don't chat or meet with STRANGERS!
• Always ask your parents before you surf!
• Never display or give out your personal
  information!
• Tell an adult if you are being bullied or feel
  threatened by material on the Internet! 
• Use passwords and do not share them!
• Do not open email, messages, etc, from people you
  don't know!

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• Classroom Assignment on Cyber Security for Kids

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Conslusion

• Handouts
• Ten Internet safety Tips for Kids
• http//www.scpo.net/brochures/KIDSInternetTips.pdf
  
• Stay Safe Online
• http//www.mrdzhistoryclaz.com/blogger/uploaded_im
  ages/internet-safety-798013.jpg

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Questions

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Works Cited

• http//royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/22/internet-2008-
  in-numbers/
• http//www.fbi.gov 
• http//www.theage.com.au/national/teens-view-of-cy
  ber-threats-20090725-dww9.html
• http//www.cyberbully.org/onlinedocs/cskcstschools
  .pdf
• http//www.projectsafekids.org/cyber.html
• http//kids.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/English
  
• http//www.safekids.com/
• http//www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST05-002.html 
• http//kids.getnetwise.org/ 
• http//www.slais.ubc.ca/COURSES/libr500/04-05-wt2/
  www/D_Jackson/examples.htm 
• http//www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576347,00.html
   
• http//www.pcworld.com/article/119941/top_five_onl
  ine_scams.html