Get Safe Online Week

A question about : Get Safe Online Week

This week is Get Safe Online Week, a campaign giving tips on how to protect yourself, your computers and your mobiles against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other problems found online.

How safe are you being when browsing and shopping online?

Take a look at the campaign's Online Code Of Conduct, use the How Much Do You Know? quiz and Online Safety Test then let us know how you got on in the thread below.

MSE Wendy

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• Just to add to add this little shocker to make parent more aware.
  https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/51...s-facebook.htm
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...strangers.html
• I did the quiz and was classed as a potentially vulnerable online user because I:
  a. didn't know how many people play online games,
  b. didn't know which country has the users who go online the most.
  Utter rubbish.
• I am also a potentially vulnerable user for not knowing about online gaming!
  However I also didn't know about where to report fraud - I've never had to know before and clearly I would look it up if I ever needed to know!
• I did the online safety test thing and got 9/10, and that is only because one of the photos is so small you have to pretty much guess what the answer is PLUS that site got that answer wrong, it is very easy to make a site look exactly the same as another, but almost impossible to make the address look exactly the same. (Unless you get a domain that closely resembles, such as Cameroons)
• I got 80% for not knowing where to report fraud or which country used the internet the most. I tried it again even if you get 100% it says you are potentially vulnerable user, which everybody is no matter what security you have you can be hit by malware. As a linux user I would also say even smug Linux and Apple users aren't totally safe there might not be as much exploits as there is for Windows but they do exist. A false sense of security can be as bad as no security.
• Thanks for your comments everyone. I'll pass them on to the Get Safe Online organisers.
  I agree that some of the questions are a bit basic for savvy web users but if we're helping to reinforce safety tips for the less savvy I'm a happy bunny
  Wendy
• Ironic that the first quiz gives a warning that's it's not safe to visit because Chrome doesn't recognise it's SSL certificate & the second one has a survey box popover that makes it look spammy.
• I got 70% - got Qu 2, 3 & 10 wrong. As above I didn't know to whom to report fraud, how many online gamers there are in the world and picked the wrong symbol for the internet on a phone but I got 100% on the 2nd quiz.
• I forgot to mention it's being picky but the second test said for wireless security hide the SSID, not only does it do nothing for security but it can cause connection problems with some devices. This is one of the big security myths like using MAC filtering.
• Quiz 1: I am vulnerable - I would report online issues to the police and don't know how many people play games online. Are these really issues?
  More seriously I gave my real age; I should have lied.
  Quiz 3:
  Two websites I have never heard of and I have to choose which one to trust? Surely this question provides too little to go on. [ok, so I pick https, but this is not enough]
  "Wireless worries" - correct answer is b, use encryption, but the quiz only accepts d, which is encryption plus unnecessary complexity.
  Both quizzes have an issue with describing firewalls - a good firewall should allow outsiders to connect to your computer over the internet if this is desired, and should stop your own PC sending unwanted traffic out to the internet
• I scored 90%, I just didn't answer where to report online fraud to. Surely that in itself doesn't make me vulnerable?
• I'm just waiting for my newly-acquired Nigerian friend to email me the answers. All he wanted in return was my date of birth and passport number.