Internet Safety Vocabulary
Bullying that takes place over digital devices like computers, smartphones, or tablets, typically through social media or messaging platforms.
Cyberbullying
Benefits toward Safeguarding Personal Information.
Knowing to protect your personal information reduces the risk of identity theft, phishing, and other forms of fraud.
Avoiding text message phishing.
Not clicking on links in unsolicited messages and instead visit the official website of the delivery service directly or call their customer service number to check if there are any issues.
Malicious software designed to damage or disrupt a computer system, or steal information.
Malware
An example of not oversharing.
Limiting the amount of personal information that you post online, or just generally share around.
The act of creating a fake online identity to deceive others, often for fraudulent or harmful purposes.
Catfishing
A way to not lose access to files.
Saving important files to a cloud service or an external hard drive.
Software that secretly collects information about a user's activities without their consent.
Spyware
Another example of Not Oversharing
Not putting your own personal information into sketchy or just random emails, text messages, social media, and websites.
A fraudulent attempt to steal sensitive information, such as passwords or credit card numbers, by pretending to be a trustworthy entity.
Phishing
A way to Ensure a site is legitimate.
Double-check the website's URL of which you are on for accuracy. By looking for "https://" at the beginning of the web address.