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With more social media avenues available than ever before, the need for education about being safe online is increasing, according to NetSafe.

With rapid changes in the digital technologies used in schools and their communities, the concept of online safety has fundamentally changed.

What are the rules around this content shared on YouTube? Are schools and teachers allowed to freely show videos loaded on YouTube in the classroom?

“Let’s celebrate how we can support each others’ learning in a networked world."

OWLS is a resource to support teachers as they teach the concepts of privacy online to primary and intermediate school students.

“In real life one does not simply ‘become’ the long lost relative of a Nigerian Prince or magically win a lottery that they have never entered."

There has been a significant increase in reports of scammers trying to defraud people by claiming to be calling from Microsoft.

Fraudsters posing as Microsoft employees have scammed two Alexandra residents out of thousands of dollars, the New Zealand Police have reported.

Education Law in NZ says schools are to provide a safe physical and emotional environment including addressing behaviours such as cyberbullying.

The national cybersafety organisation has recorded more than $1m lost to online scams during March and is seeing smartphones and tablets increasingly

“Young people are disproportionately affected by online challenges such as aggressive or bullying online communications,”

Safer Internet Day is celebrated worldwide to encourage the safe and positive use of the internet and digital technologies among children and young people.

NetSafe has offered up some advice for how businesses can protect themselves from online scams and credit card fraudsters.

Almost 50,000 attempts were made to rapidly submit fake donations through a website form with the aim being to test which credit cards could be used for subsequent online fraud or sold on to other internet scammers.

Pond now has a feature where inappropriate or unlawful content, communication or behaviour can be directly reported to NetSafe.

"We were completely blown away by the time and energy put into each of the student campaigns."

"We define online bullying as the use of electronic technology to demonstrate behaviour that taunts, demeans or harasses someone less powerful."

"To be absolutely clear, we do not receive reports of infected computers and then call people at home."

Horny New Zealanders taking part in naked online video chat sessions are being blackmailed, with Kiwis losing $4.4m last year due to internet scams.

Teachers have a new weapon in the fight to teach cyber security with the development of the Comic Creator.

NetSafe looks to find an internet age solution to the internet age problem of cyberbullying.

Kiwi safety and security website reports nearly NZ$1m losses due to cyber attacks in the past year.

The anonymity of Facebook stalking could soon be at an end, thanks to new tool.

Free application aims to put knowledge about cyber security straight into the hands of those who need it.