Cyber safety refers to safely using the internet while protecting personal information. It is important to be aware of potential dangers like identity theft, where someone steals personal details to pose as another person online. Websites can track users using their IP address, browser history, cookies, and other methods to build profiles for targeted advertising. Users should practice safe browsing habits, use private browsing when possible, and adjust privacy settings to control what information is visible to others online to avoid identity fraud or privacy violations. Digital footprints created by all online activities are permanent, so caution is needed regarding what information is shared or posted.

1. Cyber safety

2. What is cyber safety?
•Cyber safety refers to the safe
and responsible use of internet
to ensure safety and security of
personal information and not
posing threat to anyone else’s
information

3. Safely browsing the web
• Safe browsing on web needs you to know many things like:
• What are the possible dangers?
• How to avoid these?
• How to virtually conduct yourself while browsing web?
• You need to know that not every site is safe to visit; whatever you
post or do online is visible to others; not everything that you see or is
promised online is true.
• Also, safeguarding your computer is very crucial before you go online.
• There are some rules you must follow to conduct yourself online and
there are other things that you must know so that you can counter
unknown dangers

4. Identity protection while
using internet.
• We give our private data to businesses and other internet
users, for a variety of reasons(eg: signing up, buying, selling,
making an account ,etc.,).
• We trust them to use that information for legitimate
purposes.
• This isnt always the case though and financial and personal
data can be used for harmful reasons like hacking, stalking
and identity fraud.

5. Identity theft
• It is a type of fraud that involves using
someone else’s identity to steal money or
gain other benefits.
• Online identity theft refers to an act of
stealing someone’s personal information
such as name, login details etc. and then
posing as that person online.

6. Identity fraud
•It is when personal details
that have been accessed or
stolen are used to commit
fraudulent acts posing as
someone else with stolen
identity.

7. Common solution for these
problem:
•Private browsing
•Anonymous browsing.

8. Digital footprint
• Digital footprints are the records and traces individuals
activities as they use the internet. Digital footprints are
permanently stored
• It is also referred to as “digital tattoos”
• It last forever (cannot be undone)

9. Privacy settings
• When you start using social media, you should not go with
default privacy settings. Rather it is always a good idea to
set-up privacy settings yourself by using ACCOUNT
SETTINGS. Through privacy settings, you can control:
• Who all can see what you have posted
• Who all can send requests to you
• What all information about you is visible to others, even to
your contacts etc.

10. Many Websites Track You
• Whenever you visit a website, your web browser may reveal
your location via your device’s IP address.
• It can also provide your search and browsing history.
• This way websites can track you.
• Tracking is generally used by advertising networks to build
up detailed profiles for pinpoint ad-targeting even tracking
down users for special purpose such as effecting their
political choices.
• The type of information is compiled through is compiled
through your web usage patterns, and which websites
generally use for tracking you.

11. IP Address:
• IP address is a unique address of your device when you
connect to the Internet.
• Your computer may share your IP address with the other
networked devices in your house or office.
• From your IP address, a website can determine your rough
geographical location.

12. Cookies and Tracking
Scripts:
• Cookies are small pieces of information websites can store in your
browser.
• They have plenty of uses. Eg: When you sign into your online-banking
website, a cookie remembers your login information.
• When you change a setting on a website, a cookie stores that setting
so it can persist across page loads and sessions.
• Cookies can also identify you and track your browsing activity across a
website.
Cookies can be:
i. First party cookies: These store your own login id, passwords, auto
fill information etc. for some websites that you frequently visit.
ii. Third party cookies: These are the cookies that website store to
know about your search history so as to place advertisements as
per your interests. This may result in many unwanted
advertisements on your webpages.

13. HTTP Referrer:
• When you click a link, your browser loads the web page
linked to it and tells the website where you came from.
• Eg: If you clicked a link to an outside website on a webpage,
then the linked website will get opened and internally
information about you such as your IP address, location,
your web browser, machine type etc. will also be provided
to the linked website.
• This is known as HTTP referrer.