{"id":247114,"date":"2026-05-16T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity-agrinews\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:25:11","slug":"senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity-agrinews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity-agrinews\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior News Line: Teen teaches seniors about cybersecurity \u2013 AgriNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinews-pubs.com\/features\/2026\/05\/16\/senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity\/\">Senior News Line: Teen teaches seniors about cybersecurity \u2013 AgriNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinews-pubs.com\/features\/2026\/05\/16\/senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity\/\">https:\/\/www.agrinews-pubs.com\/features\/2026\/05\/16\/senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-16 11:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.agrinews-pubs.com\">www.agrinews-pubs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Tejasvi Manoj, a 17-year-old from Texas, was named in 2025 as Time magazine Kid of the Year. Her claim to fame? Teaching seniors how to avoid cyber scams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Her reasoning for the task was personal \u2014 her grandfather was nearly hit by a scammer who was pretending to be a relative demanding money. Thankfully the grandfather called another relative before he hit that \u201csend\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">This is one brilliant young lady. Not only does she teach cyber security at senior centers, but she developed an online teaching program called Shield Seniors at shieldseniors.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">While the site isn\u2019t fully up and running yet, it\u2019s one we will need to keep an eye on when it does start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Have you heard of TED talks? TED is a platform where the best and the brightest among us give short talks on all types of topics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">If you want to see this sharp young lady during her TED talk, go online to y2u.be\/v3800D3xHQo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why we have a responsibility to build digital bridges | Tejasvi Manoj | TEDxPlano\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v3800D3xHQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">If you want to hear more from her while you\u2019re on YouTube, put her name \u2014 Tejasvi Manoj \u2014 in the search box. You\u2019ll be impressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Two years ago there were 860,000 scams reported by seniors and $4.8 billion was lost in one year alone. Why is it scammers come after us?<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">They perceive that we have a lot of money. After all, we\u2019re retired, so we must be rich, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">We didn\u2019t grow up in the tech generations \u2014 taught to handle digital devices by the age of 3 and able to easily spot scams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">We\u2019re also, to our occasional detriment, too polite and trusting when we talk to others. It makes it all too easy for a scammer to manipulate us on the phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">To learn more about how to avoid scams, go online to the Federal Trade Commission website at ftc.gov and put \u201cscammers,\u201d \u201cscams against seniors\u201d or \u201csenior scams\u201d in the search box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinews-pubs.com\/features\/2026\/05\/16\/senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior News Line: Teen teaches seniors about cybersecurity \u2013 AgriNews https:\/\/www.agrinews-pubs.com\/features\/2026\/05\/16\/senior-news-line-teen-teaches-seniors-about-cybersecurity\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-16 11:10:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.agrinews-pubs.com\/resizer\/v2\/ZBW3E4XVVREXJPLBEDWW3GYI3M.jpg?auth=7ebbaf277f51c0927de5f07fb5cdd8afa83b237754c7414829a3df67c6ff1079&width=1200&height=800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-247114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247116,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247114\/revisions\/247116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}