Safe Keeping Blog

Holidays are almost here! Black Friday is only a few days away, Cyber Monday around the corner, and, unfortunately, over the next few months, identity theft will probably increase as it does every year. I love the holidays. Unfortunately, so do identity thieves. There is no holiday break for thieves as they seek to take…Continue Reading

Internet safety is often thought of as something adults teach kids. But adults make big mistakes, too: A Taliban spokesperson accidentally publicly CC’d everyone on his mailing list.  And, the recent scandal around an affair between General David Petraeus and writer Paula Broadwell came to light, in part, because they misunderstood email security. Adults don’t…Continue Reading

Many people have a love / hate relationship with Facebook.  They feel like their personal business is all over the place, but if they choose not to place their personal business all over the place, they then feel left out. While some people have actually taken the leap and deactivated their Facebook accounts, most of…Continue Reading

Net Literacy, a student-managed nonprofit, conducted a series of online safety focus groups with high school students during June and July, 2012.  During these focus groups, the teen respondents were asked what they would say to parents, teachers, and youth leaders teaching online safety to help enhance the relevance and effectiveness of safety training. I…Continue Reading

I have a question for parents: What would you do if someone asked you to send him or her a sexually explicit image? I’m assuming your response would be, “I’d never do that.” Let me also ask, how do you know that would be your answer? My guess is that you’d respond, “I just know…Continue Reading