#Cyber Education

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Cybersecurity Analyst: Safeguarding the Digital Frontier - Who and what they do?

In today’s interconnected world, cybersecurity stands as an impenetrable shield against the relentless wave of cyber threats. At the forefront of this defense are Cybersecurity Analysts, skilled professionals who protect organizations and individuals from malicious attacks on their digital assets. This article delves into the responsibilities and significance of a Cybersecurity Analyst and…

[reality-detective]

Eva Vlaardingerbroek on the predictive programming about cyber attacks. 🤔

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec will ban cellphones in all public school classrooms "as soon as possible," said Education Minister Bernard Drainville Wednesday.

"Cellphones are taking more and more space in our kids' lives," he said. "We know that, and what we want is for them to concentrate on what their teachers are saying, rather than the texts they get."

Exceptions will be made if the devices are used for educational purposes, said Drainville.

A similar motion was shot down back in May, but Drainville said he thought long and hard on the issue and decided a cellphone ban would create better conditions for academic success.

Ontario implemented a cellphone ban in 2019, and Drainville said Quebec is following suit. [...]

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Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: This might be the most useless thing I've ever seen the education minister work on. Nearly every school already has this rule in place, and it's still being implemented flexibly, what exactly is the point of making the provincial education minister do this?

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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Good for Health

[everlastiingiimmortals]

King of Hearts and Three of Diamonds for Ratio

Card Suits. Closed! | @cyber-scribbles

King of Hearts - Does your muse often give out advice? How do they react to being given some?

I think if anything Ratio has a horrific habit of giving out absolutely unsolicited advice. Rudely (usually). But not without merit! Though when it comes to being given advice, it's definitely more of an offense to him. He'll definitely bristle; if he feels that the advice is unwarranted or unreasonable, he'll react worse. It's definitely a slap to his ego as a polymath and a genius with an immense breadth of knowledge, as well as someone who maintains the belief that he, as a destroyer of ignorance, does not need advice, but as he is a scholar he also knows the value of being wrong or offered a new perspective and being able to admit such with grace.

...The thing is that he's rarely wrong. And he defends his pessimism.

But! If one happens to have (miraculously) earned his full respect, they'd find that he's able to take corrections and advice quite well, aside from his initial >:0

Three of Diamonds - How much legal trouble has your muse been in? What caused it?

Would you consider being affiliated with the IPC legal trouble because I would ASLGHKDJAFKLJHDSA

he may have also gotten physical (not in the sexy way) with people a few times as well but. we don't talk about that. it's fine. he may have manhandled someone and actually hurled them out of a classroom by the front of the shirt but it's fine. he may have possibly broken someone's nose over a debate that escalated badly. i don't think he got into legal trouble for that though. it's fine. we don't talk about it. we d-

[nuclear-comet]

Dreamwalker- Cyber

Nuc X138 was in an unfamiliar place, yet felt as though he saw it before. They felt the sun beat down on him in a way they hadn’t felt before… he doesn’t think, at least. It was a welcome from the cold lab, at least.

“Hello?”

@cybershadow

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The Nation’s Only High School Integrating Cyber Technology & Engineering Into All Academic Disciplines 

A publicly funded commuter and residential 9-12 magnet school serving students from around the state, offering free tuition for a diverse student body that is about 30% African American and 37% female.

[darksouls2yuri]

#homeschooled swag I was homeschooled until I started going 2 community college when I was 16 🤞🤞🤞I've never so much as set foot in a high school class LOL

i begged and begged my parents to go to high school at 15 bc i knew i would never be allowed anywhere aside from those creepy insular less than 100 students christian colleges bc my mom did """unschooling""" instead of making me at least work thru those homeschooler curriculums.....

[chubsa]

q se vayan todos, q no quede ni uno solo

La buena, internet esta más centralizado que un putas, lo que antes era paginas web libres, grandes compañias consiguieron a punta de publicidad, palanca y moneda quedarse con el control a través de sus redes sociales, que marikada tan densa, ahora todo debes acceder mediante alguna red con unas normas y terminos ni los hijueputas que atentan contra la privacidad, se dice que hay poblaciones que no conocen algo más que sea facebook. Por eso me vine a esto, en un sueño lucido me acordé de tumblr y pensé lo underground que era y lo underground que seria usarlo ahora, llevo un tiempo utilizando, una chimba, no se ve esa sobre población de señoras de 40 y chinos huevones de 10 años, aunque yo también fui no de ellos. Y nada hoy decidí poner algo para ver si me levanto una pollita, un caramelito asi bien aesthetic.

[reality-detective]

Klaus Schwab's Cyber Plandemic 👆

Be prepared for a possible BIG cyber attack: do you have money on hand, a generator, are your gas tanks full and do you have food stocked up in your home? 🤔

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FLDJFKFJDKD I HATE THAT I LITERALLY AM DOING THIS WAITING FOR IT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE💀💀💀

[atozofsoftwareengineering]

Advanced Persistent Threats: Understanding the Characteristics, Tactics, and Strategies for Prevention and Mitigation in Today's Cyber Landscape

A detailed read on Cyber security in today's digital landscape. Happy Sunday everyone!

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are a type of cyber attack that is specifically targeted at organizations or individuals to steal sensitive information or disrupt operations. These attacks are carried out by highly skilled and organized hackers who use sophisticated techniques to gain access to networks and systems. In this paper, we will discuss APTs in detail, including their…

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𝕿𝖔 𝖉𝖔 𝕷𝖎𝖘𝖙 ;)

-cover physics

-history : Weimar Germany

-english language papers

[jcmarchi]

The importance of cyber security education for young students - CyberTalk

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The importance of cyber security education for young students - CyberTalk

Dasha Smolina is an emerging cyber security professional and is currently a Security Engineer in the Eastern U.S. Region at Check Point Software Technologies. She joined Check Point in 2023 to help organizations and businesses meet their cyber security needs.

Overview

The sophisticated cyber threat landscape poses a significant risk to the education sector. Malicious actors’ interest in this sector is growing. Students are often targeted by these attackers because of their increased online presence, risky online behavior, and lack of cyber security awareness. Unlike businesses, which often successfully employ cyber security awareness training to prevent cyber crime incidents, schools overlook cyber security training in their curricula. As young students continue to boundlessly explore the web and are increasingly exposed to cyber threats, K-12 educators need to provide better cyber security training for students to ensure their safety online.

Background – Why are students targeted and what cyber crime are they experiencing?

In the past few years, the internet has become a primary channel for education, with two-thirds of children saying they access their online education resources daily. One in three education devices contains sensitive data, making it critical to keep devices secure.

Students are also more connected to the web than ever before because of the prominence of social media and online gaming. These children are exposed to the internet constantly, relying on it for almost all of their educational and recreational needs. However, they often lack awareness about online safety. As noted previously, attackers are targeting these children because of their increased online presence, risky online behavior, naivety and lack of safety precautions.

K-12 students are experiencing concerning cyber risks such as cyber bullying, inappropriate content, identity theft, and more. Given that 92% of children are online by the age of 12 and that 72% of them having experienced at least one cyber threat, it is evident that students are at risk of attacks by cyber criminals. Moreover, these attacks are multifaceted, with attackers utilizing various techniques to induce harm (see Exhibit 1).

In addition to what was mentioned above, online crimes against children are also high because of the prevalence of children using social media without adult supervision. Nine out of 10 households with internet access have children who are active on social media, and 54% of these households do not regulate their children’s online activities. The lack of supervision and awareness, combined with an increase in online activity means that students are exposed to many cyber security threats.

Exhibit 1 – Boston Consulting Group Survey Results

The data shows that one particular cyber threat affects children more commonly than adults: cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is particularly dangerous because it can affect children through all hours of the day and night and can come in many forms such as texting, social media posts, and chatroom messages. Cyber bullying can also be anonymous, which leaves victims with little recourse to report the attacker. Even if the victim knows who the attacker is and blocks or reports them, there are so many avenues through which to hide an identity online that the attacker can easily find another way to harm the victim; it is nearly impossible to escape a determined cyber bully. Cyber bullying has detrimental effects on its victims, leading to mental health issues, increased stress and anxiety, depression, and violence. The effects of cyber bullying have also been shown to be long-lasting, continuing even once the bullying has stopped.

Another long-lasting cyber crime that children are targeted for is identity theft. This dangerous cyber crime ensnares one in 50 children annually and has life-long implications for a child. For those who may not know, identity theft as a cyber crime occurs when an attacker steals a person’s data and information to commit fraudulent identity-based activities, such as opening credit cards or bank accounts, applying for loans, committing online crimes like scams, and more. Children who have had their identity stolen might not find out for years, or even decades, until they try to open their own credit card account and discover that their credit history has been tarnished. Children fall victim to identity theft through data breaches, doxxing (someone else publicly sharing their information or “docs”), parents or close ones oversharing information about the child, children oversharing their information or passwords with friends, and phishing and other common online scams.

Trusting strangers online and naivety can also lead children to become victims of online predators or groomers. Online predators visit popular social media websites and falsify their age and profile content to potentially lure young children into online interactions. Once contact is established, the groomer then pressures the child to reveal explicit photos of themselves and might even try to meet the child in person. Sometimes the groomer will blackmail the child, but other times the victim might not even realize they are being groomed, considering the online predator to be their boyfriend or girlfriend. There are about 500,000 online predators active each day but only two out of ten children are aware of this potential danger. Rather than protecting themselves and limiting potential exposure to dangerous adults online, 40% of children online remove their privacy settings to attract more followers. This makes it that much easier for groomers to access a child’s information and manipulate them online.

Children also fall for online financial scams, as shown by the data collected for the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report, which states that people under the age of 20 accumulated over $40 million worth of losses to online scams in 2023. Online scammers are preying on children who are accessing the internet at early ages and who lack the awareness to recognize cyber threats.

With more children going online at even younger ages, it is no longer as easy as it once was to keep children safe at home. Online threats are infiltrating their lives and putting children in danger of cyber attackers. Given education’s shift towards online learning, students are facing many new kinds of cyber risks. Moreover, with the emergence of new technologies, such as the Internet of Things or cloud-based and network-connect devices, including children’s toys and household appliances, the evolution of threats is not slowing down. Thus, it is important for educators to better understand the situation and help equip students with the knowledge and skills to protect themselves from attackers.

Proposed solution – How can cyber attacks that target students be prevented?

To protect young students from becoming cyber crime victims, educators and parents should increase the cyber security safety measures in-place on children’s devices. They should also provide cyber safety awareness education for children. Oftentimes, once an attack has occurred, the damage is irreparable, and parents can only report the crime and mitigate the impact. Therefore, prevention should be the priority. Combining safety controls with better cyber security education in regards to topics like phishing, privacy, social media safety, and cyber security awareness training will equip students with the tools and skills they need to be safe online.

Since students are provided with devices to access the internet by their parents or their educators, a simple way to better protect students is to employ cyber security solutions on these devices. As education becomes more digital, for school systems that provide tablets and computers for students, Check Point provides a suite of solutions to secure students. These solutions prevent uncontrolled exposure to inappropriate website content, phishing, and advanced cyber threats targeting students and their personal information. Check Point’s cyber security solutions for education protect against all imminent threats, are easy to implement, facilitate meeting compliance mandates, and keep students’ online access safe and regulated. Please reference the Check Point solution overview for K-12 education here: https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/products/harmony-education-solution-brief.pdf

For parents providing devices for their children, Check Point offers a similar consumer product, ZoneAlarm, which incorporates features from the Check Point Harmony suite to prevent malware, phishing, ransomware, and other zero-day threats. Please reference the Zone Alarm information here: https://www.zonealarm.com/

For over 30 years, Check Point’s mission has been to secure the digital world for everyone, everywhere and we pursue this mission by preventing attacks before they happen with an industry-leading 99.8% threat prevention rate. So, the best way to secure the devices that young children are using is to install prevention-first cyber security solutions onto the devices.

While securing the devices helps prevent attacks from happening, a multi-layered approach to security should also include cyber security awareness education programs. Safe internet use lessons for children, including topics like keeping information private on social media, being wary of online scammers, and how to report/stop cyber bullying, would greatly benefit students. Based on a report from the Children’s Commissioner, parents share an average of 71 photos and 29 videos of their children every year and children will share their own content to social media over 70,000 times by age 18. This abundance of information makes it easy for attackers to profile their victims and use the information that they post against them.

Educating parents and children about limiting the personal information that they share online will help prevent attacks. Educating students about different types of scams and attacks will also help prevent children from engaging in cyber bullying and with online financial scammers. Teaching kids to be critical thinkers and practicing situational awareness when engaging with cyber space will better ensure that they are on-guard and don’t fall prey to basic scams that cause tremendous harm.

If this cyber security education is provided to students in a way that is engaging and easy to understand, students will regain the knowledge effectively. Creating lesson plans that contain interesting topics, like generative AI, social media safety, and preventing online gaming scams, will ensure a fun learning experience and an abundance of engagement on the part of the students. Bringing in guest cyber security speakers or employing online games are great ways for educators to teach cyber security topics without requiring the educators to be cyber security experts themselves. There is an abundance of options for helping students be safe online and it is extremely important that students are equipped with the tools and skills to remain safe in the increasingly dangerous online environment.

K-12 cyber security education resources

Fun online games (all games have NO LOGIN requirements to ensure students do not have to share any information to engage with the content)

https://sos.fbi.gov

Game for 3rd – 8th graders that works on tablets, mobile devices, or computers. Covers topics including internet safety, online etiquette, smart sharing, securing systems, and protecting against attackers.

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us

Game for 2nd – 6th graders that works on tablets, mobile devices, or computers. Game is available in multiple languages. Covers topics including smart sharing, recognizing scams, staying secure online, online etiquette, and how to report online incidents.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/cyber/

Game for 4th – 8th grade students that works on computers. The game is designed to teach students how to recognize and thwart cyber attacks. Students play as a startup company with in-sufficient security and are tasked with creating a security strategy to prevent hackers from infiltrating their company.

https://overthewire.org/wargames/

Game for 8th – 12th grade students that works on computers. This game is more advanced and tasks students with learning cyber security topics while practicing ssh and linux scripting skills.

https://public.cyber.mil/training/cyber-awareness-challenge/

Training style game for 7th – 12th graders that works on computers. This game is geared towards teaching users how to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities. The training provides an overview of cyber threats and best practices to stay secure online.

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Scope and Career Opportunities After a BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science

In today’s digitally-driven world, the importance of cybersecurity and digital science cannot be overstated. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, the demand for skilled professionals who can protect and manage digital infrastructures continues to grow. A BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science offers a gateway to a myriad of exciting and lucrative career opportunities. This degree equips graduates with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in various sectors, from government agencies to private enterprises.

Understanding the BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science A BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of both the theoretical and practical aspects of cybersecurity and digital technologies. The curriculum typically includes courses on:

Cybersecurity Fundamentals: Understanding the basics of protecting networks, systems, and data from cyber attacks. Digital Forensics: Learning how to investigate and analyze digital crimes and incidents. Network Security: Gaining expertise in safeguarding network infrastructures from unauthorized access and threats. Cryptography: Studying techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversaries. Software Development: Developing skills to create secure and efficient software solutions. Ethical Hacking: Learning how to identify and fix security vulnerabilities by thinking like a hacker.

These courses ensure that graduates are well-prepared to handle real-world challenges in cybersecurity and digital science.

Career Opportunities After a BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science

Cybersecurity Analyst One of the most sought-after roles for graduates with a BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science is that of a cybersecurity analyst. These professionals are responsible for monitoring and protecting an organization’s network and systems from cyber threats. They identify vulnerabilities, implement security measures, and respond to incidents, ensuring the safety of digital assets.

Digital Forensics Expert A digital forensics expert investigates cyber crimes and security breaches. They collect and analyze digital evidence to uncover how an incident occurred and who was responsible. This role is crucial in both law enforcement and private sector investigations.

Network Security Engineer Network security engineers design and implement secure network solutions to protect against unauthorized access, cyber attacks, and data breaches. They work on firewalls, VPNs, and intrusion detection systems to ensure robust network security.

Information Security Manager Information security managers oversee an organization’s cybersecurity policies and procedures. They develop and enforce security protocols, conduct risk assessments, and ensure compliance with regulations. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and management skills.

Ethical Hacker Ethical hackers, also known as penetration testers, are hired to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in an organization’s systems, just as a malicious hacker would. However, their goal is to find and fix these vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by actual cyber criminals.

Security Consultant Security consultants work with various organizations to assess their security posture and recommend improvements. They provide expert advice on how to protect digital assets and create comprehensive security strategies tailored to the organization’s needs.

Cybersecurity Researcher Cybersecurity researchers focus on developing new techniques and technologies to combat emerging cyber threats. They conduct research on malware, attack methods, and defense mechanisms, contributing to the advancement of the field.

Compliance and Risk Analyst Compliance and risk analysts ensure that organizations adhere to cybersecurity laws, regulations, and standards. They assess risks, implement controls, and conduct audits to ensure compliance with legal and industry requirements.

The Future of Cyber and Digital Science Careers The future looks promising for those holding a BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science. The rapid digitization of industries and the increasing frequency of cyber attacks mean that the demand for cybersecurity professionals will continue to rise. According to industry reports, the cybersecurity market is projected to grow significantly in the coming years, creating numerous job opportunities.

Moreover, with the advent of technologies like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing, the scope of cybersecurity and digital science is expanding. Professionals with expertise in these areas will be highly sought after, opening doors to specialized and high-paying roles.

Conclusion A BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science offers a robust foundation for a rewarding career in one of the fastest-growing fields. From protecting critical infrastructures to investigating cyber crimes, graduates can pursue a wide range of career paths that make a significant impact. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, so too will the opportunities for those equipped with the skills to safeguard it. Whether you are passionate about hands-on technical work or strategic management, a BSc Degree in Cyber and Digital Science can pave the way to a fulfilling and dynamic career.