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1. Online/Internet Safety

2. Online/Internet Safety
We are online…
Our kids are online…
Our cars, homes, appliance are online..

3. Phenomenal Growth
– Web Sites
• 1+ billion websites on the world wide web today
– Users
• 3.5+ Billion user
– Smart devices
• 22+ Billion connected devices, expected to reach
50+ billion by 2020

4. Can you imagine a world without
the Internet?

5. Pony Express
• St. Joseph Missori to Oakland California
– Established 1860
– 1900 miles, 184 stations
– 10 days
– About $5K to send a letter
Illustrated Map of Pony Express Route in 1860,
Courtesy the Library of Congress
Pony Express 25c stamp, Source: Stan Shebs
Google Maps

6. Reference Sites
• Encyclopedia Britannica
– 1768 - 2,670 pages
– 1860 – 17,957 pages
– March 2012 – stopped printing
• Internet
– Estimated 45+ Billion pages

7. Social Media and Networking
• Communities of people
– User generated content
– Interactive content
– Networking/Relationships
– Shared Interests
– Vanity, Badges

8. Internet Security
Good Bad
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Social
• References
• Educational Resource
• Business
• Shopping
• Smart homes
• Smart Cars
• Viruses, Trojans, Worms
• Identity Theft (Phishing )
• Impersonation
• Cyber Bullying
• Loss of Privacy
• Loss of Personal Information
• Ransomware

9. Viruses, Trojans, Worms … oh my
• Types
– Viruses, Worms, Trojans,
Malware, Spyware, Adware,
Ransomware
• What can they do?
– Key logging, Botnets, Sensitive
Information Scanners, Physical
destruction, hijack data
• How
– Clicking on attachments (PDFs,
documents)
– Visiting rogue sites – free sites

10. Recommendations
• Use an anti-virus/spyware – “better than
nothing”
• Be careful clicking on links or attachments
• Never click on ‘shortened URL’ or QRCodes
unless you know where it will take you
• USB Flash Drives (nuclear reactor incident)

11. Identity Theft
• Attackers want your personal information
– Date of Birth
– Email ID
– Address
– Social Security Number
– Place of Birth, City you live in
– School
– Graduation Year
– Favorite Color, Sports Team
– Track your location
– Passwords
– Your Voice saying ‘Yes’

12. Identity Theft
• So what can I do with your personal
information
– Reset passwords
– Establish new financial accounts
– Steal $$ (CC or checking/savings accounts)
• Example
– Hacker reset politician’s email account with simple
secret questions – birth date, high school
– Phishing and Spear Phishing

13. Identity Theft
• Recommendations
– Don’t post personal information online
– Don’t use personal information in secret questions
– Don’t give away personal information to others
– Be smart, be aware
– Do not respond to emails asking you to enter personal
information
– Use 2 factor Authentication
– Use a sentence or a phrase that you can edit to make
it a strong password (!L0V3K@B0B)
– Turn off Camera Geolocation

14. Social Communities
• Community
– Friends
– Fun
– Shared Interest
– Global
– Instantaneous
• Village Square or public space
– People can come in, sometimes without
your permission
– All your information can be stored
permanently
– All your information can become visible
– People want to buy or use your
information
– Impersonation
– Hard to Undo

15. Impersonation
• Pretending to be somebody they are not
• Examples
–Predators pretending to be your friend
–Financial Scam
–Charity scams
–IRS/Immigration scams
–Computer/Internet technician

16. Recommendation
• Be wary, Be smart, Be careful
• Be careful who you become friends with – try to
verify offline
• Don’t succumb to the temptation of having the
most friends
• Only befriend people that you know personally
offline
• Do not go and meet “friends” without an adult
• Never provide any personal information in
email/phones/social media

17. Privacy Settings
• Privacy Settings
– Companies change the privacy
settings for their benefit
– Privacy enforcement may not
be secure
– Social networks are for-profit
companies. They NEED your
information to be public in
order to make money.

18. Recommendations
• Understand, use but DO NOT rely on privacy
settings
• Do not put any information online that you
would not put offline
• FB/Instagram OWN your pictures and posts
• Your information can and will be
– Sold
– Passed around
• Don’t believe Snapchat

19. Cyber Bullying
• Cyber bullying is when a child is tormented,
harassed, humiliated, threatened by another
child or adult.
• Starts as early as 2nd grade
• Difference to physical bullying
– Have to be present, in your face – CB can be
anonymous and everywhere/all the time.

20. Cyber Bullying
• Megan
– Became “friends” with “Josh”
online for a month
– After a month
• Conversation turned very nasty
• “Josh” taunted Megan until she
committed suicide
– “Josh” turned out to the mother
of a girl who didn’t like Megan

21. Recommendations
• Please – promise you will
– NEVER cyber-bully others!!!!!!!!
• It is bad
• It is against the law
• It can ruin you and the victim
– Never be part of cyber-bullying
• If you are cyber-bullied
– Talk to somebody
• Your friends, your guidance counselor, a trusted adult, your
parents -- Don’t face this alone
– Don’t respond
– Don’t retaliate
– Save the evidence