Jake Moore, our security analyst, explains our Digital Security Handbook for Teachers in greater detail.
What are the basic rules of mobile device protection for adults and children? What to consider while taking selfies. Find out in the handbook available on this website.
Differences between cyberbullying and face-to-face bullying. Learn how to recognize it and what you can do to prevent it in the handbook available on this website.
How to improve social media safety. How to choose a network or chat app. Online addictions, FOMO, influencers - learn about all of that and more in the handbook available on this website.
Find out in the handbook available on this website how to recognize these online manipulations and protect yourself and others against them.
What is your digital footprint, and what can you do about it? How can you verify someone's identity on the internet? Find out in the handbook available on this website.
How to increase browser security. Learn about cookies, downloading, browsing history, the dark web, incognito mode, etc., in the handbook available on this website.
“Lack of online restraint” is called the Online disinhibition effect. People often show a lack of restraint and caution on the internet due to their perceived anonymity. That perception causes people to act with more courage or even aggression online compared to face-to-face communication.
Fear of missing out (FOMO) is the fear of missing something exciting or important, such as friends’ celebrations or sports practices. It may cause anxiety and other negative feelings that can also be caused by the user’s (child’s) fear of missing out on the most recent gossip on social media.
Internet addiction (considering the internet as a medium) doesn’t exist. Just like there’s no such thing as being addicted to “being offline”, there is no addiction to “being online”. There are only addictions to specific online activities: social media browsing, online gaming, shopping, etc.
Online gaming addictions most frequently develop among MOBA (multiple online battle arena) players. The second most at risk are MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) players encouraged by the game to constantly improve their avatar (e.g. World of Warcraft).
Confirmation bias is mostly an implicit and spontaneous tendency to favour information that confirms our existing beliefs or hypotheses. Experiments have shown that people often don’t seek information but a confirmation of what they already believe and tend to pay less attention to different views.
A passive digital footprint consists of not directly visible information, which the user unknowingly leaves in the online space. Examples include browser type, device model, language settings, operating system or IP address stored in the internet provider’s database or servers.
Estonia is the only country in the world that has so far introduced remote internet voting. Estonian voters need to register using their electronic ID and confirm their identity multiple times.
The deep web contains up to 96% of all online content, mostly legitimate and not dangerous. It is called “deep” because its sites and contents are only accessible to selected groups of users and most of them cannot be found using search engines.
The dark web is the “deepest” part of the internet. It’s anonymous and protects people persecuted for their work or religious or political beliefs. It allows them to communicate safely. Unfortunately, it’s also misused by criminals to sell malware and trade in illegal weapons, drugs or services.
Malware is short for malicious software. This code is meant to cause harm to the victim’s digital property, steal data, money, login information, or monitor them and their online activity. Money is the usual motivation of malware creators and operators.
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