{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cybertraps Podcast","title":"School Districts Struggling to Cope with Rise of Social Media Threats Cybertraps 96","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1677,"description":"New substack: subscribe here. https://cybertraps.substack.com\n- Show Notes\n- Social media and digital communication threats are a rising problem\n- Every threat has to be taken seriously\n- Incredibly disruptive\n- Warning notices to parents – upsetting\n- Lockdowns\n- School closures / switch to remote learning\n- Myriad vectors\n- Email\n- Text messages\n- Social media apps\n- Snapchat\n- TikTok\n- Instagram\n- WhatsApp\n- Facebook\n- What Can Schools Do to Address the Problem?\n- Short-Term\n- Incident response plan\n- Assessment of severity of threat (err on side of caution)\n- Notification to the school community\n- Cooperation with law enforcement to identify source\n- Every incident is a teachable moment\n- Spiderman – “With great power comes great responsibility”\n- Long-Term\n- Role of parents\n- Cybersecurity measures\n- Monitoring of social media\n- Balancing resources and student privacy\n- Creating a culture of awareness among students and staff\n- Reluctance to get involved?\n- Concern about being a “snitch”\n- Relationship with law enforcement, including FBI\n- Investigations\n- Selfie-incrimination\n- Mistaken belief in anonymity\n- Digital investigations\n- Computer forensics\n- Penalties are serious\n- Resources\n- #2021–11–12 Photos from Oregon students’ social media pages taken, uploaded on site with ‘highly inappropriate content,’ district says\n“https://www.channel3000.com/photos-from-oregon-students-social-media-pages-taken-uploaded-on-site-with-highly-inappropriate-content-district-says/”\n- #2021–11–12 Ossining High School switches to full remote learning following social media threat\n“https://bronx.news12.com/ossining-high-school-switches-to-full-remote-learning-following-social-media-threat”\n- #2021–11–11 Hopewell superintendent addresses next steps after guns found in schools, social media threat\n“https://www.nbc12.com/2021/11/11/hopewell-superintendent-addresses-next-steps-after-guns-found-schools-social-media-threat/”\n- #2021–11–11 Maine East High School student facing...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-npbjlTwEpH5Ybi_ySNRhS-EfNqaI7Ep1svTppTGhLE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNTcyLzE2ODM5/MjY0NDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}