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Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began we've seen an eight-fold increase in phishing spam. Here are the 6 most common scams to watch out for. Via EDTECH@UTRGV 
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As the digital world evolves, cybersecurity life skills are more essential than ever—here are some major lessons to impart upon studentsIf a student from your school had someone knock on their front door, ask for personal information and offer to give them a treat in exchange for that information, what would happen? It depends on the child, but what you know for certain is that your district or school has been teaching stranger danger since that child was in kindergarten, so the odds are good that the interaction would raise a red flag for the student.
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Since 2018, over three million people have used a patented technology, developed by iProov, in the form of mobile device apps in order to confirm their genuine presence. As examples, people who wish to access a bank account or register for secure services can use biometrics to hold their phone or another mobile device in front of their faces.
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While that may come as no surprise, there are new dynamics impacting the application of security processes and strategies that may have a significant impact on how organizations mitigate their risk in 2020. From the monitoring of cybersecurity metrics to the IT skills shortage to artificial intelligence, many new trends will change the scope of cybersecurity and the compliant retention of critical data. Consider these seven 2020 security predictions:
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The event was added from my boyfriend’s Gmail account; however, he says he never saw an email for the “event” in the first place. It’s also on our calendar five different times.
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Google’s Safe Browsing technology examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites. Every day, we discover thousands of new unsafe sites, many of which are legitimate websites that have been compromised. When we detect unsafe sites, we show warnings on Google Search and in web browsers. You can search to see whether a website is currently dangerous to visit.
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Consuming information online is no more than a click, scroll, or swipe these days. All searches are not created equal and rarely do we think about fact checking what we find on the Internet. I am not alone in thinking about how “…the Internet is actually changing the way we read the way we reason, and even the way we think, and all for the worse” (The Death of Expertise, Nicols, 2017, p. 111). In higher education, I think it is imperative we teach our learners and colleagues about what it means to participate and interact in digital spaces and places. How can our institutions help students, staff, and faculty “be” online and consider how both information and digital environments impact knowledge sharing and learning?
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Some might say that the Internet was built on anonymity, paving the way for a place where free speech reigns supreme.
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The issue Current and emerging technologies present so many opportunities for new ways of learning, but with it comes a number of challenges for universities and colleges in ensuring their learners know how to behave safely and responsibly in the digital space.
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As the Government's Investigatory Powers Bill, or ‘Snoopers Charter’ as it has come to be known, passes through Parliament Eric Bohms considers the potential implications for the sector.
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"Social media and text messages have blurred the lines between students’ school lives and private lives. While most schools take clear steps to protect students at school, more schools are beginning to consider the need to set policies that apply to students’ activities outside of school." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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“Young people can be sensible online – if they want to be”, says Ellie Gregson..
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With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the globe and emptying the dorms to send students home for online education, there is a pressing need for the students to be more cybersecurity conscious. There are many things you need to do to secure the system before the virtual class can begin, including using a VPN. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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"Like tens of thousands of other schools, Berkeley Unified School District in Northern California picked Zoom as its video-conferencing tool to support its remote instruction plan. But that came to a screeching halt after a naked adult “Zoombombed” one of its high school classes. A few days later the district switched to Google Meet, according to Ashley Boyd, whose two children—ages 9 and 12—attend school in Berkeley Unified." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Improve your online safety with tools for your needs. Answer a few simple questions to get personalized recommendations of free and open-source software. It's confidential -- no personal information is stored, and we won't access any of your online accounts. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Since its debut in 2004, Gmail has had the most popular email service on the planet, with a staggering 1.5 billion users worldwide. It’s one of the most versatile and useful email platforms out there. Besides its built-in features, it also supports rich customization via a wide range of plugins. That, combined with its powerful search features and the fact that Gmail is free—well, it’s little wonder that over a third of the world’s four billion internet users use it for their email needs.
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The mot recent Facebook hoax making its rounds has prompted me to remind everyone about the importance of using strong and varied passwords (don't use the same password for Facebook as you do for your bank account).
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As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “data insecurity,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software. The issue extends well beyond education technology, of course, and in 2017 we witnessed yet again a number of high profile incidents (including some corporate admissions of breaches that had happened in years past): that over 140 million Social Security Numbers and other personal data had been stolen in a data breach at Equifax, for starters; that every single account at Yahoo – some 3 billion in all – had been affected in its 2013 breach.
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The Snooper's Charter will turn us all into security experts this year
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At the American Civil Liberties Union, privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian (TED Talk: How to avoid surveillance … with the phone in your pocket) spends much of his time thinking about how individuals can protect themselves from spying. Last year, he recorded a Facebook Live conversation with his fellow TED Fellow, Will Potter (TED Talk: The secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before) — an investigative reporter who specializes in covering dissident politics and culture. Read on for their tips about how to protect your online privacy and security:
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Fordham University Law Professor Joel Reidenberg talks with Education Week Correspondent John Tulenko about student data and the best ways to keep it secure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhymvuozoWk Via Roxana Marachi, PhD, Dean J. Fusto, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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Librarians have long understood that to provide access to knowledge it is crucial to protect their patrons' privacy. Books can provide information that is deeply unpopular. As a result, local communities and governments sometimes try to ban the most objectionable ones. Librarians rightly see it as their duty to preserve access to books, especially banned ones. In the US this defense of expression is an integral part of our First Amendment rights.
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Protecting student privacy and making sure online environments are safe and secure in schools is a very big deal.
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The degree to which the online abuse occurs could necessitate anything from a simple Facebook block to, in more dire cases, a call to the police.
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