Protecting Your Identity
The state of being free from being observed or disturbed, and the right to keep one's personal information private.
What is Privacy?
Is the use of technology to purposely repeatedly, harass, threaten, intimidate or humiliate others.
What is Cyberbullying?
The act of passing off another person's creative work or idea as your own.
Whar is Plagiarism?
A social engineering technique that tempts someone to do something.
What is Baiting?
Malicious code or software that displays or downloads advertising content.
What is Adware?
Situations that can expose someone or something valued to danger or harm.
What is Risks?
An ongoing pattern of communication that is harmful to the person to whom it is directed.
What is Harassment?
A type of intellectual property that protects the original works of an author.
What is Copyright?
A social engineering technique that uses a fake story to manipulate people into sharing private information.
What is Pretexting?
Malicious software that captures data about a person without them knowing or without their permission.
What is Spyware?
Involves safety methods to keep you safe and your data secure.
What is Cybersafety?
A person who supports the individual being bullied by being a friend to them.
What is an Ally?
Works that are not restricted by copyright and are free to use by anyone for any purpose.
What is Public Domain?
A social engineering technique that uses a fake message that appears to be from a trusted source to trick a user into clicking on a link or sharing private information.
What is Phishing?
Malicious software that when executed causes damage to a device, spread from computer to computer and malicious software that multiplies on a computer until the device is out of memory can also spread from computer to computer.
What is Virus and Worm?
A digital trail that shows where a person has been on the Internet.
What is Digital Footprint?
A person who witnesses bullying but ignores it and does nothing to help.
What is a Bystander?
A violation of the exclusive rights of a copyright holder, such as copying, distributing, or performing the copyright owner's work without permission.
What is Copyright Infringement?
A social engineering technique that redirects a user from a real website to a fake website without the user's knowledge.
What is Pharming?
Malicious code or software that looks useful but allows unauthorized access to systems and malicious software that encrypts a file, folder or system and requires a ransom to unlock it.
What is Trojan and Ransomware?
Any data that can be used to directly identify a person.
What is Personal Identifiable Information (PII)?
A person who helps a person being bullied by telling the bully to stop or reporting what they saw or heard to a trusted adult.
What is an Upstander?
Allows others to use portions of copyrighted work without permissions.
What is Fair Use?
A threat that tricks someone into revealing or doing something they normally wouldn't do.
What is Social Engineering?
Malicious software or code designed to damage or gain illegal access to a computer system.
What is Malware?