Privacy and Hacking

By Tamra B. Orr

An invaluable guide to protecting one's identity, privacy, and personal information when using the computer and the Internet, Privacy and Hacking offers readers expert tips on how to preserve their cyber safety. With the rise of instant messaging, social networking sites, blogging, and Internet shopping, teens are online more and more, trading personal information, and exposing themselves and their computers to potential dangers, including identity theft, hacking, bullying, stalking, harassment, and viruses. From devising effective passwords and installing filtering software and firewalls to withholding personal and identifying information and avoiding emails and attachments from unknown sources, this book provides everything the reader needs to know to make the cyber experience a safe and rewarding one.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140421352X
• ISBN13: 9781404213524
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Rosen Central
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8