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October is Cyber Safety Month
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Help Keep Kids Connected and Protected – Security and Safety Procedures Kids Can Use While On Social Networking Sites
	1. Learn how social networking sites work and 6 "commonsense" tips View the Kiefer Sutherland PSA	2. Need a safe chatroom or social-networking site? Try iSAFE’s X-BLOCK, the place for students to hang out, learn about cyber safety and share their online experiences with others.	3. Visit NetSmartz interactive games and activities to learn more about cybersafety. Kids Teens	4. Participate in the BlogSafety Forum, where parents, teens, educators, and experts discuss and learn about safe blogging and social networking.	5. Read some internet safety statistics from Enough is Enough.	6. Looking for a few good websites? Check out these websites submitted by teens as great for education and fun. Also – submit your own! Play the Online Safety Game.
Teach Kids How to Secure Their Computers
7. Learn how to become an i-Mentor	8. How smart are you about internet security? Take this quiz to find out. (good for all ages)	9. Why learn about cyber security? Companies and hackers use kids to break into home computers. Here’s an article that says how and why they do it. Learn more about spyware.	10. Learn all about computer crime and its consequences. Including real cases involving teens	11. Are you safe online? Take this quiz on cyber safety and see how secure you really are.	12. View some of the EDUCAUSE Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force and the National Cyber Security Alliance winners of a computer security awareness video contest, held as part of a national campaign to raise awareness of and increase computer security at colleges and universities. Think about creating your own.	13. Learn the National Cyber Security Alliance's Top Eight Cyber Security Practices are practical steps you can take to stay safe online and avoid becoming a victim of fraud, identity theft, or cyber crime.
Who Should You Trust On the Internet?
14. Take the How safe are you quiz from the StaySafeOnline.org Learn the 8 practical tips	15. E-mail can be a fun and easy way to talk and share stuff with your friends. It can also be used to send viruses, hoaxes, gross pictures, and other bad stuff. Explore this site to learn how to protect yourself and your computer!	16. Do you know who you are talking to? Check out this site and find out if who you are IM’ing is really who they say they are.	17. Learn some important things about surfing, privacy and your personal information from the Federal Trade Commission. More Kids Privacy Resources	18. Learn the Twelve Tips to Protect Yourself From Cyber Grinches, Scams and Schemes	19. Learn more about who you are dealing with online. What is Phishing and pharming? Test your knowledge by playing FTC's OnGuard Online phishing game.	20. Test Your Knowledge about Identity Theft — New OnGuard Online Quiz Learn more about Internet fraud , securing your computer and protecting your information. Play the interactive phishing and spamming games
What You Do Online Makes a Difference
21. Thinking of bidding in an online auction or selling something online? What are advantages and pitfalls? Then test your knowledge with the interactive Auction Action game	22. Take George Mason University’s IT Security Quiz	23. View Carnegie Melon’s "Think Before you Click". Never open unexpected email attachments. If in doubt, verify authenticity using the KRESV tests, by phone, or a new email to the sender.	24. Take the MailFrontier Phishing IQ test	25. Don’t think Internet crimes could ever happen to you? Read these startling stories of true Internet crimes from wiredsafety.org.	26. Read more about what cyberbullying or netbullying is. Have you ever been Cyberbullied? Find out today by taking this QUIZ.	27. Create a strong password. View George Mason University’s humorous video on creating strong passwords
28. MySecureCyberspace: The Game (for children and the young at heart)	29. Take the University of Colorado Copyright Self Quiz	30. Who Done IT? (Solve this cybercrime murder mystery)	31. Enjoy the Business Software Alliance’s CyberTree House games and activities