Cyber Defense eMagazine May 2019

To avoid phishing scams while playing video games online, you need to empower kids with these tricks.
Set the chat “friends only” options.
Help your child to learn “no free lunches” lesson.
Keep reminding hackers’ common tricks to them on and off.
Anonymous Sharing - An Easy yet Disastrous Practice
Anonymous sharing is what teens and tweens love the most; thanks to apps like Snapchat, Instagram,
and others, allowing image posting and temporarily messages, but sadly, nothing on the internet is
temporary, everything remains there in the cloud.
Cyberbullies take screenshots and use as a weapon against our young minds;
Although anonymous sharing reflects a healthy and open expression of freedom, but also make
oversharing easier.
Before letting your child use such apps, discuss what information is suitable enough to share with the
world and make them wary of messages with links or attachments; teach your kids to use the internet
smartly.
Streaming Sites - Kid’s loved it!
Again, streaming sites like Netflix, YouTube, and others don’t bring viruses along, but yes, their comment
section can host; don’t click any link randomly in the chats.
Teach your kids the problem areas: how video ads look like, the comments section, and where
descriptions of links are inserted; you can also turn the comment section off.
Kids learning is not sufficient, we parents also need to play our part; only then we can protect our kids
from Cyber thieves and data suckers.
Let’s practice together!
Role of Parents in Securing Kids Online Presence
Enable YouTube Restricted mode to filter out inappropriate content.
Encourage your kids, to use the YouTube Kids App, so that the content remained under control.
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