Tips & Resources
Resources
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Table of Contents
Official Safety Tips
Best practice information from reliable sources.
Breach and Hack Info
Get the big picture when it comes to hacks.
Identity Theft Info
Keep your finances close and your identity closer.
Child Satefy Tips
Resources to help keep your kids safe.
Privacy Tips
What it takes to keep your communications safe.
Stay Tuned
More tips are on the way!
Official
Safety Tips
Best practice information from reliable sources.
- Online Privacy and Security by FTC
- Protect your privacy on the internet by Microsoft
- Breaking Down and Clarifying Rights by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- Secure Resources by The National Cybersecurity Alliance
- Security Awareness Training, Internet Security for Employees by Super Security Awareness (Us)
- How to Identify and Combat Spam and Phishing Emails by Super Security Awareness (Us)
Tip Sheets and Toolboxes:
- Digital Resources by STOP. THINK. CONNECT.
- Cybersecurity Toolkits by Global Cyber Alliance
Info For Your Defense
Breaches and Hacks
See the big picture when it comes to hacks.
- World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks by Information is Beautiful
- Notified (Data Breach Info) by the Identity Theft Resource Center
Cautionary breach tales to review.
- How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking by Mat Honan (Wired)
- Phone Repair Shop Employees Accused of Stealing Nude Photos by Lisa Vaas (Sophos)
Control Your Identity
Identity Theft Information
Learn to keep your finances close and your identity closer.
Cautionary ID theft tales to review.
- ID Theft Stings, But it’s Hard to Pin on Specific Data Hacks by Anick Jesdanun (AP News)
- I Lived With the Identity Thief Who Ruined My Family — And Didn’t Realize Until it Was Too Late by Stefanie Cohen (New York Post)
Parents, Protect Your Kids
Child Safety Tips
Resources to help keep your kids safe.
- A Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety by FBI
- Online Safety Guidelines for Media by Common Sense Media
- NetSmartz by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
- Curb the Problem of Cyberbullying by National Crime Prevention Council
Tips For Safe Online Communications
Privacy Tips
What it takes to keep your communications safe.
- Surveillance Self-Defense by EFF
- Privacy Guides by Digital Defense Fund
- Email Self-Defense by Free Software Foundation
- Privacy Tool Guides by Privacy Guides
- Guides and Training by Freedom of the Press Foundation
- Online Harassment Field Manual by The Freedom to Write
- Digital Safety Courses by International Women’s Media Foundation
- How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe, Ancestry, and Other Sites by Kevin Loria (Consumer Reports)
Privacy tip case studies:
- Google’s File on Me Was Huge. Here’s Why it Wasn’t as Creepy as My Facebook Data by Brian X. Chen (The New York Times)
- ‘I Felt Exposed Online’: How to Disappear from the Internet by Simon Parkin (The Guardian)
Privacy Services:
- Vehicle Privacy Reports by Privacy4Cars