This document provides information on how to stay safe online and avoid cyberbullying. It discusses taking precautions like using privacy settings and strong passwords to protect personal information from hackers, scammers, and cyberbullies. It also recommends verifying people's identities by checking mutual friends or using video chat before sharing private details or meeting in person. The forms of cyberbullying include impersonation, outing/trickery, cyberstalking, and carrying out traditional bullying through technology.

1. How To Keep Safe On The Internet!
Ben Langley
Donatas Vysniauskas
Alex Clark
Melisa Aslan

2. Coming Up…
• Take appropriate precautions to ensure own
safety and privacy
• Protect personal information online
• Carry out checks on other’s identity
• Forms and features of cyber bullying.

3. Precautions to ensure
safety and privacy
Ben Langley

4. Safety and privacy the risks on the
internet
• Cyber bullying
• Scammers
• Hackers
• Fake websites
• Malware
• phishing

5. Ensuring Your Own Safety on the internet
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Content Filtering: restricting the type of content which can be viewed.
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Proxy Servers: using systems to hid your true location.
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Monitoring and Reporting User Behaviour: keeping an eye on the behaviour of
other users and reporting anything inappropriate.
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Withholding Personal Information: keeping the amount of information that can be
viewed online to a minimum.
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Using Non-trivial Usernames and Passwords: avoiding the use of easily-guessed or
easily cracked passwords.

6. Always be cautious when using the Internet
• Always be cautious about any information you give when using the
Internet eg: if you join a chat room use a suitable nickname and never
give any personal information out such as where you live.
• Use throwaway e-mail addresses, eg: Gmail addresses that you can
simply discard if anyone starts harassing you in any way.
• Always assume that any information and pictures you put on the
Internet can be viewed by the entire world.

7. Always be cautious when using the Internet
• Beware of giving information about yourself out. The more information
you put on the internet the more there is for someone to put together
about you.
• Always be suspicious of what you are being offered on the Internet, eg:
gifts, prizes and money. There are many dangers. eg: hackers or
Scammers.
• Fake websites

8. Important to have a strong password
A password is an important element of Internet defence. It is a secret code, known
only to you, that will allow you to access certain resources. You should never tell
anyone your password.
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It is important to have a strong password that other people cannot easily guess.
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Try not to use details that could be guessed by people who know you
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Use a combination of letters, numbers and symbols
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Never tell your friends or family your password
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Never email your password to anyone
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Keep your username and passwords safe

9. Protect personal information
online
Donatas Vysniauskas

10. How to protect your personal
information online?
• Never give out identifying information such as,
name, address, school name or telephone
numbers in a public message such as a chat
room - Facebook. This is because they can use
that information against you or share it on
internet widely. Also, this could result in a
scam because someone could use your
information to find out your bank details.
Donatas Vysniauskas

11. How to make sure your personal
information stays safe?
• Learn how to use the site properly. Use the
privacy features to restrict strangers’ access to
your profile. Be guarded about who you let
join your network (Keep your profile closed
and allow only your friends to view
your profile).
Donatas Vysniauskas

12. Strong passwords
• The use of strong passwords is therefore
essential in order to protect your security
and identity.
• Make sure your passwords are long and
hard to guess. This will help your social
networking to stay private and
invulnerable to other people.
Donatas Vysniauskas

13. What is Phishing?
• Phishing is an act of attempting to acquire
information such as usernames, passwords and
credit card details.
• To prevent phishing don’t click on a malicious link or
open a malicious attachment, in which case your
financial information and passwords may then be
stolen.
Donatas Vysniauskas

14. Carry Out Checks On Other’s
Online Identity!
Alex Clark

15. Why Is It Important To Check Other’s
Identity?
• It is important to know who the people on the
internet because they may be fake identity’s.
• Also, they may find your information and details
on credit/debit card’s, but they may also be
sexual predators.
• You will have to be very careful when using social
networking, because you may not know the
people or they may be adults pretending to be
children, and you may meet up with them some
time.

16. Ways To Check Other’s Identity!
Profile Picture
• If you do not know who the person is that is
adding you as a friend on social networks, you
should first go on there profile and see there
pictures.

17. Mutual Friends
• If you do not know the person that is trying to
add you on social networks, you can always
look at there mutual friends. Then you can see
what friends he has got that you have also
got.

18. Webcam
• If you do not know the person that is adding
you on social networks, you can always add
them on Skype to see what they look like.
Some people say that they don’t want to do
webcam. They might be someone, that their
not.

19. Forms and Features
of Cyber Bullying.
Melisa Aslan

20. What is Cyber Bullying?
Cyber bullying is when a child or teen is
getting threatened, harassed, humiliated or
embarrassed by another child or teen using
the Internet, digital technologies or mobile
phones.
Melisa Aslan

21. Forms of Cyber Bullying
Cyber stalking: Repeatedly sending messages that include
threats of harm or are highly intimidating that might make a
person afraid for his or her safety.
Outing and Trickery: Sharing someone's secrets or
embarrassing information, or tricking someone into revealing
secrets or embarrassing information and forwarding it to others.
Melisa Aslan

22. Forms of Cyber Bullying
Impersonation: Breaking into an email or social networking
account and using that person's online identity to send or post
embarrassing material to/about others.
Cyber Stalking: Repeatedly sending messages that include
threats of harm or are highly intimidating, or engaging in other
online activities that make a person afraid for his or her safety.
Melisa Aslan

23. Features of Cyber Bullying
Cyber bullying can be used to carry out various different types of
bullying, including racist bullying or bullying related to
disabilities. Instead of carrying out bullying in person, cyber
bullies make use of technology, particularly the Internet and
mobile phones to bully others.
Melisa Aslan