Cyber Safety top ten tips

Hi everybody, as technology is evolving rapidly these days and mobile phones provide great and fast communicates via internet. At the same time, there are many things that everyone should know. Today we are going to disseminate top ten tips for youth in cyber space.

1. We must never use weak password such as your identity card number, phone numbers, and so on. Combination of upper and lower case letters, symbols and numbers is recommended.
2. Not everything that we read online is credible; the information will only be trustable when the source is reliable.
3. Private information such as details of our family, friends, or other peoples that you know must be kept carefully especially in cyber space.
4. Be responsible to our behavior and considerate on other cyber user’s feeling. Think twice before pressing the ‘Enter’ button to send a message out cause it’s our responsibility to be oblige when we are in cyber space.
5. Don’t think you’re safe when you said something offensive to others. If you don’t dare to say the words in front of that person, don’t ever say it in cyber space as well.
6. We must also be responsible on content we post on the internet, don’t ever post illegal or inappropriate content on the internet.
7. Social networking profile is recommended to set to private for instance security settings of our Facebook profile.
8. In social media, lots of strangers will approach and ‘add’ you with unknown intention, so only accept friend requests from people that you really know. Accepting mutual friends will is also not a good idea in social media platform.
9. Tagging our friends randomly is what we do all the time. In fact, we should inform or even ask for their permission before uploading or tagging them on their social networking profile(s).
10. Embedded links in emails or any messages might contain harmful virus, it’s better to not click in URL from unknown source, or type the URL into the browser’s OMNIBOX to go from there is a better way.

Source: http://www.afp.gov.au/~/media/afp/pdf/c/cyber-safety-top-10-tips-for-youth.pdf 

Written By: 

Vicky Tham Chun Leong Bachelor of Public Relations (Honours)

Tunku Abdul Rahman University College