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Protect your child from online predators and traffickers
Monitoring and screen-time management experts report an increase in predatory behavior in the first few months of quarantine last year.
Cybersafe Parent
Online child exploitation on the rise during pandemic
Authorities say since the pandemic, people have been soliciting photos and videos of kids more often.
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'Once Upon a Crime': Increased screen time during pandemic leaves kids vulnerable to online predators
The Selah Way Foundation produced an anti-trafficking campaign to educate parents and kids while on their devices during quarantine.
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When parents should be concerned about teens and selfies
Study shows that too much focus on selfies and editing those images can mean body shame and anxiety for teens
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Spotting and avoiding sextortion scams
Extortion by email is becoming more common, and it's also a Class B felony.
Cybersafe Parent
Spotting and avoiding sextortion scams
It’s an email scam that uses shame to try to get you to pay up. It’s known as ‘sextortion’, and it usually works like this… You get an email or message from someone threatening to have hacked into your webcam and have a pornographic video of you and then say if you don’t pay them a ransom fee, they’ll blast it out to friends and family members. It might also be a message from someone claiming they’ve got a video of you watching pornography or a copy of your browser history showing your history of visiting and downloading from these websites.
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Spoofing scams
Spoofing scams
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Police warn about spoof and scam phone calls
One way local police say scammers are taking advantage of folks is through caller ID spoofing, and they’ve seen it happen with smaller local retail busine...
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Protect your Password: Cyber Security at home
Oberly says, “The longer the password– the better. Even it it’s just a bunch of random words, it’s more secure than using alpha-numeric, special character...
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Conversations to have with kids to protect them from online predators
Child predators are a real threat, and parents must take a proactive approach to protect kids online.
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Protecting kids from predators
Protecting kids from predators
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