The Digital Student: Safety and Security

Helpful links from the National Cyber Security Alliance's sponsors, partners and friends to help you and your friends and family be safer and more secure online.

From www.whitehouse.gov

From the Cybersecurity And Infrastructure Security Agency

From backgroundchecks.org

Recovering from identity theft is a process. Here's step-by-step advice that can help you limit the damage, report identity theft, and fix your credit.

Redirected internet searches, unexpected installs, rogue mouse pointers: Here's what to do when you've been 0wned

VirusTotal inspects items with over 70 antivirus scanners and URL/domain blacklisting services, in addition to a myriad of tools to extract signals from the studied content. Any user can select a file from their computer using their browser and send it to VirusTotal. VirusTotal offers a number of file submission methods, including the primary public web interface, desktop uploaders, browser extensions and a programmatic API.

Phishers are looking to lure you with bogus emails and pop-ups that seem safe. Will you take the bait or live to swim another day?
Play this game to test your internet safety skills!

Do you want to know your level of knowledge about common phishing traps on the internet? So you have to click on this quiz game from Living Security about phishing with real screens of current ongoing threats on the internet that often deceive us about what is real and what is someone trying to breach your security.