InternetSafety

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• Get Rich Quick! Just In Time for the Holidays

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 490
  National unemployment rates over 10% and the pressures of the holiday shopping season make for a dangerous cocktail that the cyber criminals can take advantage of.  Fears of not being able to pay the monthly mortgage, car payments, backed up bills, and providing for your children for the holidays have put many people ...
  17 hours ago

• 7 out of 10 Parents in the UK Want Mandatory Internet Education in Schools

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 472
  According to a new study from the UK, parents are becoming more aware of the importance of teaching kids about the internet, but they don’t want to take the time to do it themselves. The Digital Literacy Report , which was commissioned from YouGov by the digital communications agency Halpern Cowan , polled 2,050 ...
  19 hours ago

• Download Dangers – Download Sites Are Not All Equal

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Regular readers on this site are aware, that virtually all downloads I recommend, are hosted on CNET’s (download.com), site. There is good reason for this – CNET scrupulously audits hosted downloads, to ensure they are not contaminated by malware.The same cannot be said for many other download sites.  As a ...
  21 hours ago

• Online Login Security Tips

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Don’t think much about your online passwords? Guest writer Mark Schneider gives you the lowdown on why you should. Today, many of us live online – we bank, we shop, and we communicate with old friends via the internet. The problem with online life is; your identity is out there in so many places, and [...]
  23 hours ago

• Burglars Watch Twitter, Facebook Updates to Target Homes

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 685
  The holidays are here and people are out shopping, attending parties and enjoying friends and family during this festive time. If youre a social media junkie, you are probably updating your Facebook or Twitter accounts to let everyone know what youre doing and where youre going. One or more of these friends that you ...
  1 day ago

• Boosting Security Awareness in Colleges

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 490
  Security breaches, laptop theft, and identity theft happen all the time, and these crimes increase every year. The need for people to become more aware of their digital presence and the threats surrounding it is vital. The pace at which these threats increase is much faster than our awareness grows, making a bad ...
  1 day ago

• How to Shop Online Safely

  
  Wise Bread — Authority: 680
  By Lynn Truong This article shares tips from the 15th episode of Dealista , our new podcast thatll help you get more for less. Click play to listen, or subscribe via iTunes to take the episode with you! Download episode mp3 | Check out show archive Black Friday officially rang in the holiday ...
  1 day ago

• SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition – Knocks Malware DEAD!

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  A recent question from a reader, in which he wondered why his antimalware application of choice, (an outstanding antimalware application, in my view), is rarely rated by the “major” review sites, confirmed for me, what I’ve noticed in the last few years.When it comes to antimalware reviews and recommendations, ...
  1 day ago

• Happy Cyber Monday!

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Well, do you know what day it is? It’s CYBER MONDAY!!! Yes, folks, the Monday after Black Friday has become known as “Cyber Monday,” due to the insanely high amount of shopping online that occurs. The problem is, much of that time comes at an employer’s expense. The good news is that we have a solution… ...
  1 day ago

• UK Mirror Reports on Pornography in Flickr

  
  Filtering Facts — Authority: 107
  Earlier this month, the UK publication Daily Mirror reported on the growing issue of the large amount of easily-accessible pornography found in Yahoo’s popular photo sharing site Flickr : Flickr is renowned as one of the best photo sharing sites on the web. But there’s a less wholesome side to what can be found ...
  2 days ago

• Koobface Worm Asks For Captcha

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 490
  We discussed in a recent blog on how “ Google Reader Becomes Unwitting Spam Target ”, the same behavior is being seen in a recent variant of Koobface. This variant uses the Google reader page to host the malware. Once the user selects the Google link, a fake YouTube window appears as shown below. When the user ...
  2 days ago

• Tips For Children’s Online Safety

  
  BabyNames& FamilyIssuesBlog — Authority: 152
  Social networking sites are exploding as an online way for many people, including kids, to put their personal information, create friendship networks, and conduct other activities related to “social networking”. Online predators are a risk on sites where people are going to find love and companionship. If you ...
  3 days ago

• Blocking and filtering software ‘cuts exposure to explicit Internet content’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): Using filtering and blocking software can significantly lower exposure to online sexual material among youth, say researchers.The research team from University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Centre showed that unwanted exposure to sexual material occurred in 32 percent of ...
  4 days ago

• CyberSafety Online: Tips From The Inside Out Via eModeration (Part 2)

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 26, 2009 Who’s minding the kids online? What’s ‘moderation’ got to do with it? It doesn’t take a retro flashback to know that “Kids say the darndest things,” but who is there to help them online when they do? In part one, we summed media literacy’s vital role in online safety to create ...
  4 days ago

• P.S. Lori Drew is Free!

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Last week, it was announced that no appeal will be filed in the MySpace Hoax case. Look folks, you can talk all you want about how legally it was never going to succeed, but just remember the bottom line: An adult convinced a 13-year-old girl to kill herself and is getting away with is scot-free. She will not face ...
  5 days ago

• Learn How Online Predators Work

  
  BabyNames& FamilyIssuesBlog — Authority: 152
  You really should familiarize yourself with how online predators work if you are using chat rooms or you think your children are. Online predators go after not only young children but also seek attractive and friendly women. And online predators are not just men; women can also be predators. You have probably, without ...
  5 days ago

• Wikipedia, schools and the BBC - a response to tonight’s BBC Scotland Radio Broadcast

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 128
  My thoughts on Wikipedia and its use in schools has been getting some in interesting press just recently. My original thoughts were posted here after the Handheld Learning Conference in London. This article together with my presentation at the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers Annual Conference in ...
  6 days ago

• What Can Twitter Do About Hacking?

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 472
  New York Jets Wide Receiver David Clowney joined a new support group recently . The “no-I-didn’t-say-that-on-Twitter-what-do-you-think-I’m-nuts?” club. Clowney and a growing number of celebrities, politicians, and other high profile individuals have had their Twitter accounts compromised, only to have the ...
  6 days ago

• Microsoft Initiates Legal Action Against Cryptome.org

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  Microsoft Corporation has begun legal actions against the premier securitywebsite, Cryptome.org, due to the lead of a confidential forensic tool that developed for the law enforcement. The all new tool called “ COFEE ” or computer forensics for cops was leaked on the internet from Cryptome.org in the beginning of ...
  6 days ago

• Tracking Cyber Predators

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Taking a break from the traditional Internet predator stories this week… sure to return next week! I came across this great investigative piece by reporter Kathy Sweeney at KFVS-TV/ CBS 12 in Missouri. The two-part series follows the adventures of two local detectives as they hunt and chase predators on the ...
  6 days ago

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