Internet safety

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• Holiday Safety Tip: Don’t Share Your Holiday Travel Plans Online

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 137
  In the old days, thieves would scout out neighborhoods to see when someone would be gone from their house. Now, all it takes is a quick Google search. If you’re traveling over the holidays, and you publicly share your travel plans on the Internet, you’re  practically asking for someone to break-in to your home . ...
  1 day ago

• Virginia News Stand: December 18, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 131
  Annotations & Elucidations The Snowbound Edition We have lots of material built up from the last two days, plus Governor Tim Kaine’s shocking income tax increase and budget proposals earlier today that, as one radio reporter said, caused an audible gasp from each member on the committee. Since the ...
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• Privacy Piracy: Is Facebook the new MySpace?

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 137
  Ten privacy groups are filing a complaint against Facebook for possible violation of federal laws in light of the recent changes to their privacy policies (which this blog has previously covered here and here . Check out this article from the WSJ: http://bit.ly/5IbZAB Back in the day, MySpace was the main target ...
  2 days ago

• Holiday Safety Tip: How to be a Safe Online Shopper

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 137
  Today’s Holiday Safety Tip goes out to all the people who haven’t gotten their holiday shopping done yet. Behold, your salvation lies only a few mouse clicks away. Thanks to the web, even the laziest among us can pick up critical holiday items and have them delivered right to our doors by Christmas Eve. Of ...
  2 days ago

• Help Coming For Internet Safety While Waiting For General Assembly Action

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 131
  On Tuesday, the Virginia Crime Commission decided to recommend no legislative remedies regarding “sexting,” an obscene and predatory version of text messaging. The same day, The Family Foundation participated in a Capitol press conference (see coverage at  Richmond Times-Dispatch ) with Attorney General ...
  2 days ago

• RockYou Hacker: RockYou Not the Only Site With Plain Text Login Info

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 137
  Two days ago, we talked about a massive security breach at social networking application developer RockYou. Through a SQL injection attack,  a hacker was able to access more than 32 million user passwords from the company. Worst of all, the passwords were stored in plain text, meaning there was no encryption ...
  2 days ago

• Conficker Again in the News, Part 2

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 524
  Yesterday, my colleague Dave Marcus quoted for you the new graphs and stats posted by Shadowserver. Indeed, since November 2008, W32/Conficker (alias Downup, Downadup, Kido) has frequently made headlines. This computer worm has five main variants, which have appeared during the last year. Wikipedia lists the ...
  2 days ago

• Holiday Safety Tip: Avoiding Virus-Filled Holiday E-Cards

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 137
  If there’s one universal sentiment about the internet, it is this: Spam sucks. Perhaps the only thing that rivals our hatred of e-mail spam is our hatred of viruses . Unfortunately, during the holiday season, these two blights on society join forces to become one unholy terror: the SPAMMY VIRUS-FILLED HOLIDAY ...
  3 days ago

• Conficker Again in the News

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 524
  Our good friends at Shadowserver have recently added some excellent graphs and stats that highlight the continued infections and propagation by the Conficker worm. Conficker, although it actually does very little, continues to be a major annoyance worldwide, so let’s use these excellent charts and graphs as a ...
  3 days ago

• Free Avira AntiVir Personal Protection – Get the Real Deal!

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 138
  Avira AntiVir Personal is not just another free AV solution. This application may just be the best free application for monitoring interactions with your operating system, to ensure that if a malicious program is detected it will be stopped dead in its tracks! It’s certainly the most popular in its class, and with ...
  3 days ago

• Federal Courts Rule Schools May Not Punish Cyberbullies; PC Pandora Says Parents Remain Key to Solving Problem

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 128
  Last month, a federal judge in California court made a landmark decision when it ruled that a Beverly Hills middle school has no grounds to discipline a cyberbully, due to the bully’s right to free speech. Pandora Corp. urges parents to take action and stop cyberbullying. PC Pandora computer monitoring software will ...
  3 days ago

• Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday – #71

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 128
  We have a good round-up today… Here are three more reasons you need to pay attention to what your kids do online. To all the “experts” that say predators aren’t a problem, I say “oh yeah?” 3 times to you! A 19-year-old Kentucky man met a 14-year-old girl on MySpace. She ran away with him – VOLUNTARILY ...
  3 days ago

• UK moves to protect minors online

  
  Alex @ here has what I know about — Authority: 134
  To ensure that the Web is safe for children, The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) will make online safety lessons compulsory for those over five years old from September 2011. The Council said in a CNN report last week that failing to tell children about online risks would make them more vulnerable. ...
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• 32 Million Passwords Compromised After RockYou Hack

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 137
  If you’ve ever installed a widget or application on your Facebook or MySpace profile from a company called RockYou (formerly called RockMySpace), you should change the password to your e-mail and social networking accounts immediately. According to TechCrunch , RockYou was hacked recently, compromising over 32 ...
  4 days ago

• New Study on Sexting: 1 in 7 US Teens Receive Sexts

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 128
  A new study on sexting was released showing that 15% of adolescents ages 12 to 17 have received sexually suggestive photos or videos on their personal cell phones. However, only 4% acknowledged sending out a naked image. The poll was conducted by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Check out ...
  4 days ago

• New site independentgirls.org (seeking writers)

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 137
  I (along with probably quite a few other feminist bloggers) received an email from the Associate Editor of this new site. I like the goals. Who are we? www.independentgirls.org is all about giving girls ages 9-15 a safe place online where you can learn, think, ask questions, and meet other girls dealing with the ...
  4 days ago

• [berkman] Sahara Byrne on Kids v. Parents

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 563
  Sahara Byrne , from the Dept. of Communication at Cornell U., is giving a Tuesday Berkman lunch, titled “Parent versus Child: Reports of Internet Behaviors and Support for Strategies to Prevent Negative Effects of Online Exposure.” NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key ...
  4 days ago

• Sahara Byrne: Parents, Kids and Online Safety

  
  John Palfrey — Authority: 99
  Prof. Sahara Byrne , of the communications department at Cornell, is the Berkman Center ’s lunch series speaker today .  Prof. Byrne studies responses to Internet safety techniques.  She’s interested in the “recipes for disaster,” such as when parents love a given safety technique and kids hate it.  ...
  4 days ago

• A Common Sense Approach To Internet Safety

  
  Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom — Authority: 468
  As educators, no matter our title, we are all responsible for teaching kids about the right and wrong ways to use the vast resource known as The Internet. Google and Common Sense Media make that job a little easier with the video I have embedded below. I like that there are 3 audiences. First, telling ...
  4 days ago

• Keeping Your Family Safe Online During the Holidays

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 137
  If you’re anything like me, you’ve been slowly filling with a warm holiday glow since Thanksgiving. After all, what better time of year is there than the holidays. Most people only get to see their extended family once or twice a year, at the most. Granted, they might have you pulling your hair out by New Years, ...
  5 days ago

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