For many employees, there is often the incorrect assumption that their actions online are entirely private. Many companies monitor their employee’s actions to ensure a positive corporate reputation is maintained, especially online reputation. No employer wants to have to exercise their public relations crisis management procedure in response to unintentional or [...]
Summary: The cellular technology that allows our mobile phones to track our location, stream our videos, and locate family and friends nearby, also allows us to be located. So, what’s actually happening with the devices we depend on every day? Your every move can be monetized. The evolution of the [...]
By Shannon Fitzgibbon Sexism: Sexism is ultimately the discrimination or prejudice held against someone due to their sex or gender. More often than not, this deals with women over men, as women have often been deemed “lesser” due to their gender. There are many reasons that sexism would exist in [...]
By Shannon Fitzgibbon What is it? What does it do? According to the Federal Trade Commission, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) works to regulate how online data and information regarding one’s child is gathered and handled. COPPA has therefore given some authority to parents and guardians in regards [...]
When creating a new account (social media, banking, or anything else!), a website will often prompt you to create answers to security questions. The questions are designed to help you recall information that is easy to remember, but also, unfortunately, easy to guess! For the most part, we are taught [...]
By Shannon Fitzgibbon Online blackmail is the term that defines the threatening of someone over the internet to leak information to either the public or friends and family unless that individual complies with the demands of the blackmailer. Online blackmail can happen to anyone with access to the internet, including [...]
Dear Savvy Cyber Kids, I have a young toddler, and of course family and friends around the world. I post pictures of them on my private Instagram account, sometimes putting one on Facebook but not as often (and the audience is always my friend list but I know that means [...]
By Anonymous High School Student At the end of last school year, my current laptop was starting to have things break. It is really hard to be in a class Zoom with broken speakers (luckily my headphones still worked). As the new school year was about to start I decided [...]
By Ben Halpert Legend has it that the famous bank robber Willie Sutton answered the question, “Why do you rob banks?” with “That’s where the money is.” While that statement is actually a simplification of his longer answer, that was the jist of it. Today’s cyber criminals focus on stealing [...]
By Ben Halpert People spend time catching up with others and finding out what is happening throughout the world on social media more than any other method of communication. The younger you are, the more time per day you spend doing it! And when we say young, we are not [...]
