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What You Post on Social Media can Affect Your Career

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What You Post on Social Media can Affect Your Career

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Using improper social media etiquette can affect your job

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12-year-old commits suicide after months of online torment

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People Share Identity Theft Stories // Presented by BuzzFeed & Experian

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Did you purchase 6 iguanas, a parakeet and an ant farm in Texas? Get answers to your credit questions. http://www.experian.com/education

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This is a video portraying one of the negative side effects of using the internet and social media.

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Here is a video on Internet safety suitable for kids and teens.

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Safe Web Surfing: Top Tips for Kids and Teens Online

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This website has five safe search engines that are kid friendly.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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Familyloop is a parental control software that lets parents monitor what their kids can watch and what they do watch. It can be accessed through the parents' phones from anywhere

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Baby Tracker. Breastfeeding Log & Nursing - MeGrow | MeGrow App

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Simple baby logger and tracker - log breastfeeding time, diaper change, vaccination, keep track of baby sleep schedule, baby measurements & growth chart.

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This webpage has tips for teenager who currently have social media. It provides tips on what and what not to post.

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Parents can worry about a lot. Like everything else in this world, social media is something that the adults in your life will get nervous about. While there's good reason for that, it's not easy for you to understand why Facebook or Twitter is such a big deal.
(This article is directed at teens. Parents, read what you can do here).
There are many different reasons why social media can be a dangerous playground. While the horror stories all focus on kids being lured or abducted, there are far more threats that are less severe. No matter your age or sex, it is important to follow some important rules for social media safety.

Before you roll your eyes, please know these guidelines exist to protect you! It's not about telling you what you can and can't do... it's about offering guidelines to protect you from being ripped off, bullied, disrespected, scammed, or worse while you're just trying to have a good time online.
Check Your Privacy Settings
In most cases, the default privacy settings will give your posts the most public exposure which can be very dangerous.

Important Privacy Setting Resource Links:
Facebook Privacy Settings / Twitter Privacy Settings / Control Visibility on Instagram
Why It's Important
If you've never checked or updated your privacy settings, then people you don't even know can see your posts. Even if you think you are being careful about what you post, it's common for teens to post sensitive information without even realizing it. It could be something as simple as an identifying background in one of your pictures... but online predators find easy prey in public profiles.

In a nutshell, keep your social profile strictly private... the best settings are where only friends can see what you post because you never really know who your friends are friends with online, so the "Friends of Friends" setting can leave you exposed and vulnerable.
Be Cautious of Friend Requests
Sure, it's great to connect with new people through social people... but isn't there something suspicious when a complete stranger sends you a friend request?

Play it safe and only accept friend requests from friends in the real world.

Apart from the obvious (more severe) threats... friend requests from strangers more commonly turn out to be spam bots (meaning you'll be spamming your friends). Fake profiles are also created for cyber bullying. So when a new friend request comes in, and you think you know the person, be sure to check their profile first and see if anything looks fishy.
Think Before You Post!
Limit personal contact information in your profile and posts. Never give away your phone number or address. Keep private information private. If you want to share this information with a friend, do it directly by phone or text.
Why It's Important
Teenagers tend to have a reckless, impulsive approach to social media. (No offense.)

That's why it's important to think first before you post what you are thinking or feeling. Even though you can delete something (a post, picture, comment, etc.) you can never permanently erase something that has been published on the internet. That's also a good reason why you should face your problems instead of Facebooking them. 🙂
More Tips for Online Safety:
Avoid using location services like Foursquare and disable location services on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. when posting photos. It's cool, sure... but it's not necessary and the risk is greater than the reward.

Avoid posting that you are going on vacation, or posting pictures while on vacation... until you are back home. Be also aware of the ramifications of using your cell phone at school and discuss responsible behavior within school guidelines.

If you do meet somebody new online, never agree to meet them off line. If somebody you met online sends or requests provocative pictures, tell an adult. You have to approach online friends (who you don't know in the real world) as a potential predator... because even if it feels like you know them; you really don't know who they are.

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A Teens Guide to Social Media Safety - Safe Search Kids

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This is a pledge parents can print out and go over with their kids.

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Teaching Internet Safety in the Classroom

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Teaching Internet Safety in the Classroom

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How to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students

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A lesson plan for helping students as young as kindergarten begin to understand how to be safe online.

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These are ten tips for adults to stay safe when browsing the internet.

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Working, teaching, and learning away from the MIT campus poses new risks to securing information. IS&T recommends that community members follow these best practices when engaging in activities remotely to help reduce the chance of the information and data you handle at MIT being compromised.

Protect your devices
Make sure your devices are running newer operating systems supported by the vendor (e.g., Windows 10, macOS Mojave 10.14, or newer) and that all updates have been applied.

Protect your information
When exchanging high risk (i.e. sensitive or personal) information over email (e.g. birth certificates, loan applications), make sure to protect it by encrypting files before sharing.

Secure your home WiFi
Make sure your home router's firmware is up-to date, that you have changed the default password to something strong, and that you have enabled WPA2 encryption for your home WiFi network.

Practice safe video conferencing
Use MIT-approved and licensed enterprise video conferencing tools, such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex, which offer protections for your security and privacy, and follow suggested best security practices.

Be aware of COVID-19 related scams
There has been an uptick in malicious attacks to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Be wary, in particular, of phishing attacks and also of scams that try to trick you into making donations to fraudulent organizations or causes or revealing sensitive information. Protect yourself and your information by using caution when opening emails and attachments.

IS&T is committed to strengthening the security of MIT's infrastructure and information.
Even computers that don't appear to have any valuable information can be attractive targets for attacks. Compromised computers and other devices can be used as a foothold allowing attackers to spread through the network. Networked devices in MIT's public IP space are constantly under attack from devices across the globe. IS&T provides a variety of security services and software to protect the MIT community.

Protect yourself

Take steps to protect your computing and the information you handle at MIT.

Enable automatic updates for your operating systems and software to protect against the latest security threats.

Install Sophos Anti-Virus and CrowdStrike Falcon. Sophos protects your computer against known viruses, worms, and malware. CrowdStrike provides advanced protection against emerging threats, using machine learning to detect patterns commonly seen in attacks.

Use a password manager such as LastPass to generate and protect strong, unique passwords.

Back up your computers using CrashPlan. This cloud-based backup solution makes it easy to recover data from computers that have been lost, stolen, or damaged by malware.

If you handle personally identifiable information (PII), install Spirion to help you detect and securely encrypt or delete files with sensitive information.

Beware of phishing and other scams

Phishing emails and email scams continue to be an effective way for scammers to steal credentials, install malware, or extort cryptocurrency. Many of these emails are targeted to a specific department or lab, and may appear to come from someone you know or do business with.

If an email looks suspicious, report it to phishing@mit.edu by forwarding the email as an attachment. The IS&T Security team will take steps to protect the community.

Learn more

The Information Protection @ MIT website provides access to policies and guidance on safeguarding information at the Institute. The Awareness I: IT Security and Awareness II: IT Security courses are available in the Atlas Learning Center.

Report an IT security incident

It's important to report any IT security incident as soon as you are aware of it so the Security team can take proper steps to limit the impact and extent of loss, investigate, protect other members of the MIT community, and meet any regulatory or legal requirements.

If you believe a breach of MIT information occurred, immediately report the IT security incident by sending email to security@mit.edu or by submitting the form below. The IS&T Security team will contact you to evaluate the situation and determine the next best step. If necessary, they will assemble the Data Incident Response Team. You should not address these situations on your own, as that may corrupt forensic information needed to determine the scope of the issue and the risks to MIT.

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Take steps to ensure that you are secure when working remotely Working, teaching, and learning away from the MIT campus poses new risks to securing information. IS&T recommends that community members follow these best practices when engaging in activities remotely to help reduce the chance of the information and data you handle at MIT being compromised.

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Here is a video on the best ways to prevent your computer from getting attacked by viruses.

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Best Ways to Protect Against Computer Viruses

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Here are some common practices for how to secure your computer against viruses and malware. Doing all these things will protect you from most viruses, especially viruses that are sneaky and install themselves without you knowing. ▼ Follow Me on Social!

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