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Cybersecurity where kids are concerned

October 1, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Today (October 1) marks the start of the US's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It's an increasingly important kind of awareness for everybody to have, because, in this very social media environment, security – of our data, identity and property – is just as "crowd-sourced" as media is now. And we all know that kids are doing as much, if not more, sharing and producing as everybody else. So … [Read more...] about Cybersecurity where kids are concerned

Filed Under: kids, Parenting, Security, Youth Tagged With: A Parents' Guide to Cybersecurity, computer security, ConnectSafely, digital literacy, mobile security, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, network security

Key phishing-avoidance trick

September 8, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Share this easy phishing-avoidance tactic with Facebook users in your family. ZDNET writer Ed Bott provides screenshots of four Facebook email notifications he has received, two of them definitely not from Facebook. He illustrates how hard it is to tell fake Facebook emails from real ones, but here's a great trick that will help you and your kids: Instead of just clicking, hover your cursor or … [Read more...] about Key phishing-avoidance trick

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: computer security, family tech strategies, malware, phishing

Major privacy and safety updates at Facebook

August 23, 2011 By Anne 3 Comments

This week Facebook starts rolling out* a new level of control users have over their profiles and privacy. Among a number of positive changes are: the ability to approve any photo or post you're tagged in before it's visible to others on your profile; the ability to approve or not any tag someone tries to add to your photos or posts; and the ability to decide who sees what you post right before you … [Read more...] about Major privacy and safety updates at Facebook

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy Tagged With: computer security, consumer privacy, Facebook, networking security, privacy controls, privacy settings

DefCon’s first kid hackers

August 9, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

You know that there are hackers, and then there are hackers, right? Sure there are criminal hackers, but there are also plenty of "white hat" hackers who are in it for the challenge and to help find security breaches so companies and governments can get them fixed. Well, DefCon, one of the longest-running annual hacker conventions, just happened in Las Vegas for the 19th time, and it seems the … [Read more...] about DefCon’s first kid hackers

Filed Under: hacking, Security Tagged With: computer security, DefCon, hackers, youth

Attacks on Macs

June 7, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

There have been "a number of reports over the past few weeks about an anti-virus scam that goes by a number of aliases, including MacDefender, MacProtector and MacSecurity," reports Larry Magid, my ConnectSafely.org co-director, at the San Jose Mercury News. He says he's been religious about protecting his Windows computers against malware but only just tried out some anti-virus software on his … [Read more...] about Attacks on Macs

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: computer security, Macs, malware

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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