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Cybersecurity: Protecting Yourself Online

Cyberthreats

How to Identify and Protect Yourself from an Unsafe Website

 

Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is bullying or harassment that happens online. It can happen in an email, a text message, a game, or on a social networking site. It might involve spreading rumors or images posted on someone's profile or passed around for others to see, or creating a group or page to make a person feel left out." -Federal Trade Commission

 

Cyberwarfare

The use of computer technology to attack an organization, state, etc.; esp. infiltration or disruption of computer or other information technology systems for strategic or military purposes; an instance or period of this." -Oxford English Dictionary