LESSON 2

• Good Day!
• ONLINE SAFETY AND SECURITY
• Empowerment Technologies
• Internet

  A POWERFUL tool
• Internet

  • Can be used to promote business
  • Gain new friends
  • Stay in touch with old ones
  • Source of entertainment through games, online communities and everything in between
• The internet is one of the most dangerous places, especially if you do not know what you are doing with it
• Information Risks

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Middle Name
  • Current and previous schools
  • Names of your mother and father
  • Names of your siblings
  • Address
  • Home phone number
  • Birthday
• Tips to stay safe online

  1. Be mindful of what you share online and what site you share it to

  2. Do not just accept terms and conditions; read them

  3. Check out the privacy policy age of a website to learn how the website handles the information you share

  4. Know the security features of the social networking site you use. By keeping your profile private, search engines will not be able to scan your profile

  5. Do not share any of your password with anyone

  6. Avoid logging in to public networks/Wi-Fi. Browsing in "incognito" mode, a feature of the browser will not protect you from hackers

  7. Do not talk to strangers whether online or face to face

  8. Never post anything about a future vacation. It is similar to posting "Rob my house at this date"

  9. Add friends you know in real life and refrain from adding strangers

  10. Avoid visiting untrusted websites

  11. Install and update an antivirus software on your computer. Use only one antivirus software to avoid conflicts

  12. If you have Wi-Fi at home, make it a private network by creating a password

  13. Avoid downloading anything from untrusted websites. You are most vulnerable in peer-to-peer downloads as the download is most likely not monitored by the site owner

  14. Buy the software do not use the pirated ones

  15. Do not reply or click links from suspicious emails
• Core rules of netiquette

  • Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life
  • Remember the human
  • Know where you are in cyberspace
  • Respect other people's time and bandwidth
  • Share expert knowledge
  • Make yourself look good online
  • Help keep flame wars under control
  • Respect other people's privacy
  • Be forgiving of other people's mistakes
  • Don't abuse your power
• Malware

  Stands for malicious software
• Types of malware

  • Virus
  • Worm
  • Trojan
  • Spyware
  • Keyloggers
  • Adware
• Spam

  Unwanted email mostly from bots or advertisers. It can be used to send malware
• Phishing

  Its goals is to acquire sensitive personal information like passwords and credit card details. This is done by sending you an email that will direct the user to visit a website and be asked to update his/her surname, password, credit card or personal information
• Pharming is a more complicated way of phishing where it exploits the DNS (Domain name Service) System
• Think before you click

  1. Would you want your parents or grandparents to see it?

  2. Would you want your future boss to see it?

  3. Set your post to private. In this way, search engines will not be able to scan that post

  4. Avoid using names. Names are easy for search engines to scan

  5. If you feel that a post can affect you or other's reputation, ask the one who posted it to take it down or report it as inappropriate
• Intellectual property

  If you create something- an idea, an invention, a form of literary work, or a research, you have the right as how it should be used by others. The copyright law includes your rights over your work, and anyone who uses it without your consent is punishable by law
• Avoid copyright infringement

  1. Understand that copyright protects literary works and artworks, but it generally does not protect underlying facts. This means that you can express something using your own words, but you should give credit to the source

  2. Be creative and ask yourself whether what you are making is something that came from your own work or something made out of somebody else's creativity

  3. Be responsible and know that even if a material does not say that it is copyrighted, it is not a valid defense against copyright

  4. Know the law, for instance, in the Philippines, copyrights only last a lifetime(of the author) plus 50 years