Find Cyber Safety Security Tips for You and Your Kids Online

Cyber crime can affect your finances and even put your children in danger. For helpful tips on how to protect yourself, your children, and your computer, visit StaySafeOnline.org.

For adults, you can view how to protect yourself from individual online threats, such as email scams, viruses, spyware, and botnets. For each threat, you can read additional information on how to identify the threat and keep your computer secure.

If you have children who use your home computer, you can learn more about cyber safety security by visiting the "protect your children page." This page has information on how to filter the search results your child sees and how to monitor your child's computer and Internet usage.

A unifying theme on the StaySafeOnline.org site is that children and adults must remain aware that people are not always who they say they are online. Predators and other criminals often pose as other people in order to win the trust of unsuspecting victims.