{"id":9351,"date":"2015-07-20T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2017-09-24T06:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T10:39:04","slug":"security-tips-for-kids-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/9351\/","title":{"rendered":"Security do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts: Keeping weirdos aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much time do you spend scrolling through your friends pages on Facebook? You can obviously tell a lot about their lifestyle and pastime thanks to all those check-ins, selfies and status updates, which they publish everyday. If you examine attentively, you\u2019ll easily find their family members, friends and even their true loves as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2015\/07\/06024541\/tips-for-kids-03-fb.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9352\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2015\/07\/06024541\/tips-for-kids-03-fb.png\" alt=\"Security do's and don'ts: Keeping weirdos aside\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anybody can perform all these actions just as you do, but with malicious goals: to hack your account, infect your PC with a virus or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">steal valuable data like your gaming accounts<\/a> or photos and video recordings to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/cryptolocker-is-bad-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">demand a ransom for bringing your files back to you<\/a>. With that said, we have to recommend that you to become sort of mysterious person \u2013 for strangers at least. Keep secrets!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t tell strangers any details of your life, even if you think you will not see them again. The Internet never forgets \u2013 and anything you say might come back to hurt you.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t send secret information via channels like chat rooms or web forums unless you know they are safe. Hackers or troublemakers can easily intercept anything you send through an unsecure channel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don't make these mistakes on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Facebook?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Awtbyt1p61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/Awtbyt1p61<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/security?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#security<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Privacy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaspersky\/status\/470279398353289217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">May 24, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t let strangers see everything that\u2019s on your social network pages \u2013 you don\u2019t know which weirdos might be looking at you. Likewise, you don\u2019t need everyone to be able to see everything you do. Use the site\u2019s settings to make sure your page is visible for \u2018just friends.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t accept every friend request without question. It\u2019s better to have a smaller group of true friends whom you know and you like talking to, rather than a huge crowd of strangers \u2013 some of whom might even be dangerous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercriminals often pretend to be nice and amiable. Here are a few rules how not to become a victim of these malicious folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":9353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[93,20,89,36,76,192,97,211,240,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-9351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tips","8":"tag-cybercriminals","9":"tag-facebook","10":"tag-kids","11":"tag-malware-2","12":"tag-phishing","13":"tag-protection","14":"tag-security-2","15":"tag-social-media","16":"tag-spam","17":"tag-tips"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/9351\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/5638\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/6005\/"},{"hreflang":"es","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.es\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/6462\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/6333\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/8362\/"},{"hreflang":"fr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.fr\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/4714\/"},{"hreflang":"pt-br","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.br\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/5535\/"},{"hreflang":"de","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.de\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/5846\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/8269\/"},{"hreflang":"ru-kz","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.kz\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/8362\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/9351\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/security-tips-for-kids-3\/9351\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/tips\/","name":"tips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18704,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions\/18704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}