internet safety

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• Zero-Day IE Exploit Coming to a Browser Near You

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 465
  Information regarding another zero-day vulnerability in the Internet Explorer web browser affecting version 6 and 7 has been published as Proof-of-Concept over the weekend. The vulnerability lies in a missing check when accessing a website’s Stylesheet markup information through the „getElementsByTagName“ script ...
  14 hours ago

• New Survey: 62% of Parents Monitoring Internet; 48% Filtering

  
  Filtering Facts — Authority: 107
  A new survey by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and the University of Michigan Child Health Evaluation and Research finds that about half of US parents use Internet parental control software.  A June, 2009 survey found 55% use them , and 2005 Pew survey recorded 55% .  What’s new is the rise in the use of ...
  18 hours ago

• Michael Fertik Discusses How to Prevent Social Media Hijacking

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 517
  There’s nothing more frustrating, and potentially dangerous, than someone masquerading as you online. In a recent interview with the Austin American-Statesman , ReputationDefender CEO Michael Fertik shared some advice on how to keep your Internet identity secure and prevent people from maliciously hijacking your ...
  20 hours ago

• Monday’s MySpace Monster #19

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  File this under the “Are You Serious?!” heading… November 20, 2009 Ventura County man arrested for reportedly paying teens to spit on him By Seema Mehta A 39-year-old Thousand Oaks man has been arrested for reportedly paying teens to spit in his face, slap him and yell profanities at him, a ...
  20 hours ago

• Fly for $1 or Your Money Back!

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 465
  It is the time of year to get together with family and friends, and that often involves flying. So, how about a promotional airline ticket for just $1? That sounds like an irresistable idea! Though it also sounds too good to be true. As you can imagine, there is something wrong here. Instead of flying for a buck, you ...
  3 days ago

• Over 200 Arrested in UK Online Predator Sting

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  A fantastic ending to this UK-Cyber Safety themed week! The Central Scotland Police announced the alarming results of Operation Defender: 215 pedophiles on the Internet who were grooming kids for sex have been arrested! Just an FYI for Friday, PC Pandora works on both sides of the Atlantic and can be used by ANY ...
  3 days ago

• COFEE Break Turns Messy

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 465
  A common challenge of cybercrime investigations is the need to conduct forensic analysis on a computer before it is powered down and restarted. As some active system processes and network data are volatile and may be lost after the computer is turning off, investigators were in search of a tool that could assist them ...
  3 days ago

• Connect Safely |Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth | Commentaries – Staff

  
  My Other Blog — Authority: 119
  This page from the US Connect Safely group is a discussion based on current research related to adolescent use of the internet. Written in no nonsense terms it seeks to dispell some of the myths currently running through a lot of the media with realistic advice on how to mitigate risk and counter problems. A must read ...
  4 days ago

• FTC Releases Guide to Help Parents Talk to Their Kids About the Web

  
  ReputationDefender Blog — Authority: 517
  The Federal Trade Commission recently released a new guide to help parents talk to their kids about the internet. Released through the FTC program, OnGuard Online, the guide is titled Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online . Here is a description of the guide from the FTC: “Kids and parents have many ...
  4 days ago

• UK Group Calls on Social Networks to Battle Cyberbullying; Bebo Answers

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Continuing with the UK-based news this week, this is a cool story. The UK-based anti-bullying group, Beatbullying, called out social networks earlier in the week (remember, it’s anti-bullying week; this year focusing on cyberbullying). They asked that the popular websites start helping in the fight against ...
  4 days ago

• Son of COPA?: H.R. 4059, “The Online Age Verification and Child Safety Act”

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 548
  Rep. Bart Stupak , (D-MI) recently introduced the ‘‘ Online Age Verification and Child Safety Act ’’ (H.R. 4059), which would require mandatory online age verification for “any pornographic website accessible by any computer located within the United States to display any pornographic material, including ...
  5 days ago

• Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday – #68

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  I have a special post for today: VIDEO included! Okay, so this 16-year-old girl from southern California goes onto a dating site. She lies about being 18 and meets a guy. She falls in love with him and runs away to be with him (in Albuquerque NM). The thing is, he is 57. He has sex with her a couple times and ties ...
  5 days ago

• Thinking Security on Free Public Wi-Fi

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 159
  I had a client ask me recently how she could know she was safe while surfing the Internet on the free wi-fi networks available in the various coffee shops around the city. I went through the general comments of a good firewall, malware and virus protection, but also offered a few other ideas for her to think about. ...
  1 week ago

• Internet Safety For Kids – Be Involved. Not Stupid.

  
  Digital Dads — Authority: 115
  There are evil people on the Internet. Right now there is some child abusing scum just waiting to find an unaware child on the Internet. Guess what? There are those same people who want to abuse your children in your neighborhood, at the mall and in every corner of the world. The real truth is that the world is full ...
  1 week ago

• Kids in UK Hit Hard by Cyberbullying

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  The big ‘Net’ news in the UK is a new study that came out. 10,000 teenagers asked revealed that nearly half (47%) of 14-year-olds are bullied. The study also revealed that: 89% of parents thought cyberbullying was just as serious as other types of bullying. About half (54%) of those questioned said they had not ...
  1 week ago

• Internet Security Tips for Seniors

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 138
  According to the U.S. Census Bureau 40% of of people 65 and older have a computer at home. Of this total, approximately  25% of these individuals are connected to the Internet.If anything, I’m sure these numbers are now even higher, since these numbers were taken from the census of 2005. In Canada, where I [...]
  1 week ago

• Invisible Me | momlogic.com

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 152
  Eventually, I got a job sitting in a cubicle fact-checking cover stories at a magazine. See more here:  Invisible Me | momlogic.com
  1 week ago

• Guide for Talking With Kids About Being Online

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 583
  On Guard Online offers a fifty-four page PDF guide to talking with kids about being online. Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online offers numerous suggestions for having conversations with students about online behaviors. The guide offers differentiated suggestions based upon the age of the children with ...
  1 week ago

• The Mega-D Botnet Bites the Dust – Sort Of!

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 138
  BOTNET. The name sounds as if it belongs in a Sci Fi flick, in which it’s used to describe a robotic zombie army up to no good; bent on committing general mayhem.Take the Sci Fi movie out of the equation and you’ve got the right idea. A botnet is a zombie army; but an [...]
  1 week ago

• Facebook, the New Alibi

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  This is a great story… and a sure sign of the times. Almost like something out off a futuristic sci-fi movie from the ‘80s, a man has proven his innocence of a robbery through precisely documented records kept on a computer… Or to put it into today’s context: a man used Facebook to prove he wasn’t at the ...
  1 week ago

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