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Cyberlingz Halloween, Quick Scan and a Glow Up

What’s New in Cyber City: Halloween, Quick Scan and a Glow Up

It’s a big week in Cyber City! There’s a ghost on the loose, a brand-new game in the Cyber Arcade, and if a few buildings and areas look a bit different… that’s on purpose. Here’s everything that happening, starting with the Cyberlingz Halloween event. Why Cyberlingz Has Special Events Special events are short, seasonal adventures

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Cyberlingz Mission 01

Cyberlingz Mission 01, Explained For Parents: What Your Child Actually Learns

Cyberlingz Mission 01 is the first of four missions in Season 01. It’s a running game where the player runs along the firewall dome that protects Cyber City. Your child dodges, jumps and slides past cybersecurity threat obstacles and when a crack appears in the wall, they patch it with a quick rhythm hack challenge

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school laptop

Have this Conversation Before Your Child Is Handed a School Laptop

Short Answer: three things before the term starts. Separate the school password from every other password. Agree where the laptop “sleeps”. And remind them, in advance, that they will never be in trouble for telling you something went wrong. The last one does more work than every parental control on the market combined. Here is

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What to do if your child has been scammed online

Your Child Has Been Scammed Online. What You Can Do Right Now!

Short answer, in this order: change the email account password first, then the game or app password, then turn on two-factor authentication on both. After that, check for unfamiliar purchases and linked devices, warn their friends, and expect a follow-up scam offering to “recover” the account. The order matters more than anything else on this

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Cyberlingz cybersecurity awareness game character art with Cyber City skyline

Cybersecurity Training Is Broken. Here’s What I’m Building Instead.

If you’ve ever sat through a corporate cybersecurity awareness module, you know the feeling. A man in a polo shirt explains what a phishing email is. There’s a quiz at the end. You click through it as fast as legally possible. You learn nothing. You forget everything. Three months later, you click a dodgy link

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