Using the internet can be risky if safety precautions are not followed. This article provides an internet safety assessment to help users identify critical security actions that should be taken to protect a computer that is connected to...

There are many ways for online criminals to take advantage of internet users. They may invade your privacy, steal your identity, rob you of your wealth, and infect your computer. This site provides links to information that can be used...

Information on the Fortres 101 desktop security software for Windows computers.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of steganography.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of software cracking.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of system cracking.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of hacker.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of pharming.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of phishing.

This site contains a Wikipedia description of spyware.

A very brief encyclopedia article on disk encryption that defines the term and lists some common disk encryption software. Links to related information are also available.

This blog article includes a description of pharming scams and user responses to the article.

Public Key Encryption, an asymmetric encryption technique, is used to allow computers to securely communicate. The high level process is explained in this article.

The advantages and security risks of "Smart" uses of technology in buildings, transportation, and grids are discussed.

A huge amount of private data is sent around the Internet every day: emails with details about our personal lives, passwords that we type into login screens, tax documents that we upload to servers. Learn more about the need for data...

This handy online tool helps you determine the strength of a password. Enter a password and Password Checker will rate it Weak, Medium, Strong, or Best.

Almost everyone that uses the internet accesses a site that requires a password. This site describes how to create strong passwords that are not easily guessed or cracked.

SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge, there are...

This resource offers information on safety awareness, to empower students with the skills they need to understand the risks to both themselves and their devices when online - so they don't fall victim to scams or identity theft, or find...

Examine the extent to which the critical infrastructure of the U.S., including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense and the Internet, is vulnerable to cyber attack.

Students apply the design process to the problem of hiding a message in a digital image using steganographic methods, a PictureEdit Java class, and API (provided as an attachment). They identify the problems and limitations associated...

Everyday companies are being hacked. A recent hack was done to Yahoo! databases. Find out how easily hackers break into websites and ways we can protect ourselves from online theft.

In this course, you will learn how to protect your device and the information on it. You will learn how to keep your devices safe from possible threats, and how to use screen locks. You will also learn how to save a backup of the...

Virtually everyone with an email account can relate to the frustration of having to deal with suspicious email messages. This site provides some advice on how to deal with unwanted spam and phishing scams.