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Anne Bubnic

Teen Harrassed By Older Men After MySpace Page Hacked - 0 views

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    Latest story of an 8th grade student being harassed online after giving her password to some friends. After a falling out, they sabotaged her MySpace page, changed her password info and proceeded to post sexually provocative information.
Anne Bubnic

Identity Theft Portal - 0 views

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    Learn everything you need to know about identity theft, credit card theft and fraud alerts and how to protect yourself. The portal provides both generic and state-by-state information. This resource would be good for a digital citizenship class and includes information on protecting both children and adults.
Anne Bubnic

A simple way to avoid being the next Star Wars Kid [Privacy online] - 0 views

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    Embarrassing images can find their way onto the web all too easily, ruining the lives of the people depicted, but a 'privacy tag' could prevent it
Anne Bubnic

How to Turn Your Network into Fort Knox: 100 Tips + Tutorials - 0 views

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    If you're a small business owner, family member, student or just someone with a laptop who loves shopping online and is addicted to your online banking, you might think that you're not a big target for identity thieves, hackers or viruses. The truth is that no one is really safe from prying eyes when they're online, so turn to this list of 100 tips, tutorials and resources that will help you beef up your own network security.
Anne Bubnic

My Privacy Contest: Deadline 12/12/08 - 0 views

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    For Canadian students (from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada). Create your own public service announcement on the issue of privacy. You can record it, animate it - present it however you want. And as long as the focus is on some aspect of personal privacy you can make it about whatever you want.
Anne Bubnic

Mitigating the Internet's Negative Consequences - 0 views

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    For the last 11 years Marje Monroe and Doug Fodeman have worked to educate schools, parents and students about the issues that affect children in an online world. Their Web site, ChildrenOnline.org, offers practical articles, resources, research, and a monthly newsletter on the topic. Recently, the team, which has a long background in education, self-published Safe Practices for Life Online, intended to show middle and high school students what scams target them and how to use the Internet more safely. A teacher's edition of the book will be available through the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in November.

Anne Bubnic

In Your I ! [Privacy Online] - 0 views

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    Video clip scenarios, lesson plans and handouts to teach students about privacy online. Privacy is all tied up in our sense of identity and how we interact with other people. We negotiate our privacy by revealing different things to different people in different circumstances. But when we talk online, what we say can be taken out of context. And that has consequences.
Anne Bubnic

10 ways parents can help stop cyberbullying - 0 views

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    Every day, for kids of all ages, the problem of cyberbullying grows. The more time kids spend online, and the more net-savvy they become, the greater the odds are that they will become the target of other children who seek to hurt or embarrass them online.\n\nThe following are ten simple tips for keeping your kids safe online, and out of the hands of cyberbullies at school and from around the world.
Anne Bubnic

How online predators target children - 0 views

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    One of the most dangerous, insidious aspects of the Internet is the targeting of children by online sexual predators. These criminals employ a series of clever, manipulative tactics to reach out to children in an effort to get them to meet in person. Any parent with children who use the Internet should be aware of the strategies employed by online predators.
Anne Bubnic

Internet Safety for Kids: The Secret to Keeping Your Privacy - 0 views

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    Helpful suggestions for how to teach your kids the proper way to respond to sites asking for personal information that would definitely keep their privacy at the same time while enabling them to still use the site.
Marie Coppolaro

The Facts about Online Sex Abuse and Schools - 0 views

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    We can never eliminate all risk; but there are ways to maximize our students' safety while using these incredibly powerful tools. Each tool needs to be analyzed individually to ascertain its benefits and the specific risks it might present. From there, thoughtful people can find solutions to the student safety issues that may arise.\nAs educational leaders we need \nto be safety conscious. We need to be prudent, reasonable; but we won't live in \nfear and we won't act from fear.\nIt is by opening doors, not closing \nthem that we create new possibilities for our children and new futures for \nourselves.
Anne Bubnic

Ghosts in the Browser: Computer and Network Security - 1 views

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    Rising concerns about computer security are evident in the San Jose Mercury News three-part series which focused on everything from phishing schemes and identity theft to student safety on the Internet. In many districts, technology directors are finding they have to do more and more to insure that data is not compromised and to see that students are not using school networks to access inappropriate content.
    Part I: How online crooks put us all at risk
    Part II: How well are we protecting ourselves?
    Part III: U.S. targets terrorists as online thieves run amok

Anne Bubnic

CTAP4 Cybersafety - Recommended Reading for Parents - 0 views

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    You can print this list of books and free downloads for parents and distribute it at your next PTA meeting.
Anne Bubnic

Police Try MySpace to Deter Sexual Predators - 0 views

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    Department Hopes to Protect Children Online by Making 'Top Friends' of Them. Police are hoping that children who use MySpace will add the department to their lists of "top friends" to discourage sexual predators from contacting them. The police consider this a "beware of the dog" kind of friendship. But I wonder how many kids would actually do this.
Anne Bubnic

DeLand teen gets probation for threatening school assault - 0 views

  • He was originally charged with conspiracy to commit murder. On Friday, Circuit Judge Hubert L. Grimes sentenced him to probation, which could last until he turns 19. He was accused of making threats on MySpace, where his page showed a tombstone, satanic references and admiration for the shooters in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, authorities said. Through instant messages on MySpace to another student, he also threatened to lock the cafeteria doors during one of the lunch periods and shoot everyone inside, authorities said.
  • boy used his MySpace page to react against the intense bullying at the middle school, which left him in fear. The boy has said that one of the bullies threatened to slit his throat.
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    A 14-year old boy was accused of making threats on MySpace, where his page showed a tombstone, satanic references and admiration for the shooters in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, authorities said. Through instant messages on MySpace to another student, he also threatened to lock the cafeteria doors during one of the lunch periods and shoot everyone inside, authorities said. In lieu of imprisonment, the student has been transferred to an alternative facility and is prohibited from logging onto MySpace or Facebook or making contact with students from his former school. The boy's attorney said the boy used his MySpace page to react against intense bullying at the middle school, which left him in fear. The boy has said that one of the bullies threatened to slit his throat.
Anne Bubnic

Protecting Children from Adult Content on Wireless Devices - 0 views

  • What You Can Do If you are concerned about your children accessing adult material from their wireless phones/devices, consider the following: Monitor how your children are using their wireless phones or other wireless devices. For example, are they using them mainly for talking, or are they using them for messaging, taking photos and downloading applications? Check with your carrier to see what types of material it offers and what types can be accessed from your children’s handsets. Check with your carrier to see if there are ways to prevent access to and downloading of content that may contain inappropriate material and that is available on a per-use or per-application basis (e.g., games, wall paper images, songs). Monitor your bill. Any content purchases made from a wireless phone should appear on your monthly bill, so check your bill to see if any purchases have been made from your children’s phones/devices. The FCC requires that the descriptions of charges on wireless carrier bills be full, clear, non-deceptive, and in plain language. Check with your carrier to see what handsets are available for your children that are not capable of accessing advanced applications that may contain adult material. Check with your carrier to see whether subscriptions to wireless data or wireless Internet packages also offer access to adult material on your children’s phone.
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    With the benefits of wireless technology comes a potential harm: the growing use of wireless phones and devices by children affords them the opportunity to access adult material that may be inappropriate for them. The FCC offers 6 tips for wireless safety.
Judy Echeandia

Help for Victims of Identity Theft - 0 views

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    The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) website offers identity theft and identity fraud information, services, and recovery aids, and includes links to Government Resources, National Organizations and Credit-Monitoring Organizations.
Judy Echeandia

Warning: Identity Thieves Target Young People, Too - 1 views

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    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) website is not only designed to provide useful resources about money management for teens, but it also provides information about identity theft and phishing scams.
Anne Bubnic

Getting a grasp on student hackers - 0 views

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    School IT administrators share strategies for defending their networks from tech-savvy students.
Anne Bubnic

Staying safe in the digital age [Quiz] - 0 views

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    Take this online quiz from the University of Maine to assess your knowledge of online security in the digital age. If you answer wrong, correct answers are given. Suitable for middle and high school students.
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