Internet Safety Blog
Lessons from the Matrix: Did we all take the blue pill in the end?
It’s 20 years since cult movie The Matrix wowed cinema audiences around the world and unleashed a wave of speculation about the meaning of life and the nature of reality. At the heart of the plot was the conceit of the red and blue pill. Hero Neo,...
Tackling Twitter: How to keep your family safe from scammers
Social media sits at the beating heart of 21st century family life. Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are all household names, and families are using one or more of these regularly. These apps are certainly great tools to help us socialize...
End-of-Summer Reading Assignment: Top Tips for Social Media Safety
by Lynette Owens We’ve seen some dramatic changes over the past 11+ years that Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF) program has been running. But none stand out more than the development of social media. In just a few short...
Don’t wait for laws: Act now to protect your family’s online privacy
by Lynette Owens Last month, the Washington Post published a surprising op-ed from Mark Zuckerberg. In it, the Facebook boss called for greater regulation of the internet to protect individuals’ online privacy, among other things. Although the...
6 Ways to Keep Gaming Safe and Fun for Kids
by Lynette Owens Video games are valued to be US $179 billion market in 2022 with over 3.24 billion people in the world already playing them. Gaming is a giant in the entertainment industry, allowing many of us to while away hours playing them as a...
If you had one special power to make life online better, what would it be?
Announcing the 2019 What's Your Story? video contest By: Lynette Owens If you had one special power to make life online better, what would it be? That’s the challenge posed by this year’s What’s Your Story? (WYS) video competition, and we think...
4 Tips To Help Your Kids Become Privacy Defenders
By Lynette Owens How much does your family value privacy and how well do you protect it? As kids live more and more of their lives online, they may not think about their privacy – or the privacy of their friends – when posting, sharing, checking...
Media Literacy Week: What the Heck Does That Have to Do with Cybersecurity?
Guest Post by Greg Young Cybersecurity is often about connecting dots, and sometimes the rationale for those connections isn’t immediately obvious. I can remember when folks argued that privacy was not related to security, but those dots are...
Asking the Right Questions: Why Trend Micro Is Fighting for Media Literacy Education
By: Lynette Owens In today’s world of fake news and cyber propaganda, it can be difficult for many of us to know what’s real and what’s there to mislead us. Our kids are arguably even more exposed to potentially damaging messages given they’re...
