How Secure Are You When
You Use the Internet?
Overview
• What is the Internet? And what it is
commonly used for?
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Parents vs. Teens/Kids Use
Ways of accessing the Internet
Common cyber threats
Facts
What’s being done? What you can do?
Questions
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?v=qv0XCaUkfNk
What is the Internet Used For?
Parents
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Teens/Kids
Your Parents
– Primarily for work-related activities
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Shop/Sell
Online banking
Catch up on news
Communication
 Email (Electronic mail)
 Co-workers
 Family/Friends
 Child's Teachers
YOU
• Education, socialize and entertainment
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Education
 Skill Building/Training
 Researching
 Encyclopedias/magazines/newspapers
 Homework help
 School reports
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Socializing
 Email
 Social Networks
 Instant messaging
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Gaming
Surfing
Downloading
 Music
 Pictures
 Videos
Ways of accessing the Internet?
• Personal Computers
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Home, school, library, café, friends house
• Mobile devices
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Cell phone, other mobile devices
• Game consoles
Cyber Threats
• Cyber bullying
• What it is
• Types
o Harassment, Flaming, Denigration, Impersonation, Outing and
Trickery, Exclusion, Cyberstalking
• Cyber predators
• What it is
• Meeting strangers online
o Threats this can lead to
o Facts of incidents
Cyber Bullying Examples
Amanda Marcuson of Birmingham, Michigan
• 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
Cyber Threats continued. . .
• Online Scams
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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
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Kids can be victims too!
What it is
Identity Theft Example
Tina Price of Uniontown, Pennsylvania
• Used the names of her children (ages 7 and 2) to apply for 25 credit
cards
• Charged with 64 counts of identity theft
• Also used her father's personal information to submit 39 credit
applications
Cyber Threats continued. . .
• SPAM
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What it is
• Viruses/Spyware
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What it is
• Plagiarism
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What it is
• Exposure to inappropriate
material
How to Protect Yourself
• Cyber bullying
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Tell an adult (Teacher, Parent, Police, etc.)
• Cyber predators
Privatize your social networking webpage
o Tell an adult (Teacher, Parent, Police, etc.)
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• SPAM
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Don't open emails from senders you do not know
• Virus/Spyware
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Use virus/spyware protection software (Symantec, McAfee, etc)
• Plagerism
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No copying!
How to Protect Yourself
• Online scams
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Don't open emails from senders you do not know
Be careful what you click on a website
• Identity theft
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Change passwords regularly
Use virus protection
Close Internet browsers
Do not check boxes that save your username and password
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Be aware of your surroundings
What’s being done?
• FBI
o Connecticut Computer Crimes Task
Force (CCCTF) + 92 others
• Schools are monitoring kids computer use
• Parents are setting parental controls on
home computers
o Google's SafeSearch
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!
Classroom Assignment on Cyber Security
for Kids
Conclusion
Handouts
• Ten Internet safety Tips for Kids:
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http://www.scpo.net/brochures/KIDSInternetTips.pdf
• Stay Safe Online:
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http://www.mrdzhistoryclaz.com/blogger/uploaded_images/inter
net-safety-798013.jpg
Questions
Works Cited
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http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/22/internet-2008-in-numbers/
http://www.fbi.gov
http://www.theage.com.au/national/teens-view-of-cyber-threats-20090725dww9.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/libr500/04-05wt2/www/D_Jackson/examples.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576347,00.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/119941/top_five_online_scams.html