How to stay safe onlineA guide for staff and students

Being eSafe relies on selecting appropriate privacy levels, knowing how to behave online and understanding the risks of using the Internet and mobile technologies: having the tools and the knowledge to be able to work safely.

Introduction

In this session we will be looking at 5 main areas of eSafety:

Social Networking

Email

Chatrooms and IM

Cyberbullying

Mobile phones

Introduction

Social Networking areas are basically websites with applications which help connect friends using different tools like blogs, profiles, internal email systems and photos.

Introduction

Be careful what information you give out on your profile. Remember that you don’t know who your friend’s friends are… or your friend’s friends’ friends!

Social networking

And you don’t know what they’ll do with your picture or your phone number if you give it out by mistake. Once your picture is out there, it’s out there forever and you won’t be able to get it back.

Click the green triangle to play youtube video “The Real Facebook”

Social networking

Be aware that information on your profile could potentially be viewed by anyone. So if you wouldn’t be comfortable printing it off and handing it out on the street, maybe it shouldn’t be on your profile.

Social networking

Click the green triangle to play video “How to set privacy on facebook”

Social networking

“Phishing” emails are bad emails that try to get private and personal information from you. Other bad emails can deliver viruses and damaging files to your computer.

E mail

Phishing email

Phishing email

This email address is a genuine email address of HMRC but it does NOT mean it was from them… this is a clever disguise

Did you even make a tax return recently? I didn’t

when I received this email. If you’re not sure – ring

them.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm

This is the biggest danger of this email… the attached webpage will ask for your personal details and will submit

them to someone other than the real HMRC

Another bogus email..

Another bogus email..You can hover your mouse

over the web link to see what is hiding underneath.

The scam artists may place a link in them that appears to

go to the legitimate Web site (1), but actually takes you to

a phony scam site (2) or possibly a pop-up window that looks exactly like the

official site.

Another bogus email..

Another bogus email..

The Megafortune Lottery-International

scam email shown here claims that the recipient has won money in an

international lottery. The email is an attempt to initiate a dialogue with potential victims and

subsequently trick them into sending money to

the scammers responsible.

There is no "Megafortune Lottery-International" and no

prize money

Legitimate banks and businesses will NEVER ask for your password or personal details by email or from a link to a website in an email.

If it seems too good to be true….IT IS!!! You have not magically won the lottery that you never entered!

If you weren’t expecting an attachment from someone…be suspicious – their computer may be compromised and has sent you a virus – contact them to ask if they did actually send you something BEFORE opening it!

You do NOT have a long lost uncle in Nigeria that has left you £100,000,000

Email General rules

If the email is from someone you don’t know and contains an attachment – do NOT open it – just delete it.

If you are not sure the email is genuine….call the bank/business/person that emailed you to confirm that it was them that sent it.

Email General rules

Chatrooms and Instant Messaging (IM)

Even if you’ve been chatting to the same person for ages and you feel like you know them, remember it’s very easy to lie on the internet and there is no way of knowing if someone is telling the truth.

Chatrooms and Instant Messaging (IM

Chatrooms and Instant Messaging (IM)

“…Attorney General Tom Corbett said that MacGregor, a retired construction worker, allegedly used an Internet chat room to approach an undercover agent from the Child Predator Unit who was using the online profile of a 13-year old girl.  During their initial chat, Macgregor allegedly asked the “girl” about sexual activity, encouraged her to masturbate and sent adult pornography to her computer…”

The Pike County Press & Port Jervis News, Oct 19th 2009

Be careful not to share too much information with other people in chat rooms. You don’t know who could be listening in or what they might do with that information.

If you wouldn’t be comfortable yelling it out in a crowded room, its best not to write it in a chat room.

Chatrooms and instant messaging

There are some adults who will try to get in touch with young people and children because they have bad intentions. Bear this in mind whilst you use chat areas. (Thinkyouknow.com)

Click the green triangle to play youtube video “Grooming”

Chatrooms and instant messaging

It’s a good idea to learn how to save conversations. This way, if anything weird or dodgy happens, you have evidence of it and you can show it to an adult you trust or copy and paste it into a reporting form.

NOTE: Someone telling you NOT to save conversations is a classic indication of something not being right

Chatrooms and IM

What is cyberbullying?

What’s different about it than normal bullying?

Cyberbullying

Cyber bullying is when someone uses the internet or mobiles to deliberately upset someone else.

What is it?Cyberbullying

By using technology like mobiles or the internet, this type of bullying can affect someone not just at college, but at home as well.

It has a 24/7 nature and can make someone feel upset or threatened in their own home (Thinkyouknow.com)

What is different about it?

1. Tell someone

2. Save evidence

3. Block the bully (on IM, social networking sites,

etc.)

4. Don’t reply or retaliate to things they say or do

5. Contact your mobile service provider (if

bothered by txts, etc)

CyberbullyingWhat to do?

Who knows your mobile number?

You should only give your mobile number to friends you know in the real world.

You should not put your mobile number on your social networking profiles (facebook, myspace, bebo, etc)

Mobile phones

Be careful if you share your photos with others. Pictures can be changed or shared around, so think about what the image is and who you are sending it to, before you press send.

Once it’s out there it’s out there forever!

(Thinkyouknow.com)

Camera phones

Bluetoothing is a quick way

of sharing stuff like photos,

files and music. Unless you

lock your Bluetooth, anyone in

the area can access things in

your phone, like your contacts.

If you don’t want to share

this information with strangers

(and why would you?!) then

make sure you lock your

Bluetooth.

(Thinkyouknow.com)

Bluetoothing

GPS can pinpoint your

exact location.

Some apps and some

phones have built in

GPS.

GPS

The worrying thing about

using GPS technology, is that

your contacts will be on a

map, showing exactly where

they are. If you can see them,

your contacts can also see

where you are too. Quite

scary if you have contacts on

your profile that you don’t

know or don’t trust.

(Thinkyouknow.com)

Global Positioning System

www.thinkuknow.co.uk

www.ceop.gov.uk

Visit Cybermentors

Further information

The resources in this pack were developed by staff and students at:

•Chesterfield College – E- Safety

•South Birmingham college – Staying safe outside college

•Northampton College – Staying safe in college

•All three tutorials were trialled with staff and students

Thanks to:

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