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 The Importance of Cybersafety Education 


What the Research Says:

The 2010 State of K-12 Cyberethics, Cybersafety and Cybersecurity Curriculum in the U.S. Survey, an extension of the 2009 National Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity Baseline Study, is an effort to understand current online safety and security education attitudes and practices of U.S. teachers, administrators, and technology coordinators.  The survey found that America’s young people aren’t receiving adequate instruction to use digital technology and navigate cyberspace in a safe, secure and responsible manner and are ill-prepared to address these subjects.
http://staysafeonline.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=67&item=50


Online Victimization Statistics:

*One in four regular Internet users younger than 17 was exposed to unwanted sexually oriented pictures online during the past year.
*One in five youths received an online sexual solicitation or approach during the past year.
*One in 17 was threatened or harassed online during the past year.
*One in 33 received an aggressive sexual solicitation online involving offline contact or a request for offline contact during the past year

 According to Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth, a recent study conducted for The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech043.shtml


Identify Theft of Children:

The Child Identity Theft Study analyzes cases of child identity theft as well as discrepancies in public data for 500 children. Key findings of the study are as follows:
  • The study discovered 5% of the children had one or more credit reports using their social security number (SSN), and 54% of those children were victims of identity theft.
  • Among those 5%, the children had on average $12,779 in fraudulent or wrongly assigned debt.
  • While the study found that children were more likely to find problems in their credit histories as they aged, an astonishing 12% of those with problems were age 5 and under.
  • A handful of cases stand out as especially severe: one child had seven identities listed under his SSN, with several thousand dollars in medical bills, apartment rentals, and credit accounts in collections; another child’s SSN was associated with over $325,000 in debt.
  • One in four victims in the study has bills or lines of credit in collections or foreclosure, while almost two-thirds of these children had fake or wrong names listed under their SSN.
  • 42% of those children with erroneous credit reports only had credit files at one credit bureau, meaning their fraud could have gone unnoticed without checking all three.
  • For 62% of the children in this study, an SSN was attached to a different identity and the child will not be able to use his or her SSN until the discrepancy is resolved.
http://childrenscreditcrisis.org/research/

Cyberbullying Statistics:

Despite the potential damage of cyber bullying, it is alarmingly common among adolescents and teens. According to statistics from the i-SAFE foundation:
  • Over half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyber bullying.
  • More than 1 in 3 young people have been threatened online.
  • Over 25 percent of adolescents and teens have been bullied repeatedly through their cell phones or the Internet.
  • Well over half of young people do not tell their parents when cyber bullying occurs.
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/cyber-bullying-statistics.html



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 WAYS TO STAY SAFE:


Use Parental Controls (check your local ISP home page for options)

Install Firewalls, Antivirus Software, and SpamBlockers
( Example of free firewalls software)
 
  (Example of free spam block software)

(Example of free antivirus software)

Install Updates
Updates to address vulnerabilities are available on the Microsoft Update site (requires Internet Explorer). We recommend enabling Automatic Updates.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/alerts/SA11-039A.html

    
Stay Current on Scams and Fraud

To keep up to date on the types of scams in global circulation, view Consumer Fraud Reporting(address below), a free online service to warn consumers about specific types of financial and other scams via the internet and provide a means to report scams and fraud.

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/


Educate Your Children
http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/cyberquoll/html/menu.html


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 Monitor Online Activity
  • Keep computers out in the open (not in kids' rooms). 
  • Watch  (physcially) their online activity
  • Check the browsing history on your computer periodically
  • Invest in a monitoring tool (ex.--http://www.netnanny.com/)


 TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN!!!!
  • ask about sites they visit
  • talk about cyberbullying
  • set firm expectations for appropriate internet use

Where to Report Concerns

  • To report cyberfraud:
            http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

  • To report online sexual exploitation:
             http://www.cybertipline.com/

  • To report identity theft:


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