online safety

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• Harassed or bullied online? Hit the panic button!

  
  Sync Blog — Authority: 431
  Kids who are harassed or bullied online may soon be able to hit a panic button for help.
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• Sue Scheff: FTC Releases Guide to Help Parents Talk to Their Kids About the Web

  
  Sue Scheff - Informational Articles and more — Authority: 119
  Many know that one of my favorite organizations is ReputationDefender . I believe they are a force in helping you and your family maintain a level of safety online - cyberspace has become an area of concern for many parents, however ReputationDefender is diligently keeping up with the time and even 10 steps ahead of ...
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• Safety Tips for Online Holiday Shopping

  
  If It Prints, I'll Let You Know - Printer & Ink Cartridges Blog — Authority: 146
  After reaching the Black Friday marker, we will definitely see a whole lot of shopping filling our days. Nowadays, that does not solely mean raiding department stores and outlet malls – it also means spending more time online hunting for the best holiday deals. In as much as actual shopping in actual stores can be ...
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• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Stay on top of Daily Deals on eBay with Internet Explorer 8

  
  The Windows Blog — Authority: 697
  Today we announced we are partnering with eBay to highlight eBay Daily Deals through Internet Explorer 8 using a Web Slice. The eBay Daily Deals Web Slice will keep folks informed popular products selling at pretty nice discounts. The Web Slice sits on a person’s Favorites Bar in Internet Explorer 8 and will offer ...
  4 days ago

• Is There Really Any Shortage of Good Programming Options for Kids?

  
  The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — Authority: 517
  In a recent PFF paper I argued that " We Are Living in the Golden Age of Childrens Programming ," and showed how, despite incessant complaints by many policymakers: the overall market for family and childrens programming options continues to expand quite rapidly. Thirty years ago, families had a limited number of ...
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• UN Child Rights Convention: How about online rights?!

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 512
  This past week, "the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) – the most universally ratified human rights treaty," the European Commission reports . It adds that "the Convention is the first international legally binding instrument establishing minimum ...
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• Internet Safety: Media Literacy Tips From Industry Insiders Pt 1

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 24, 2009 As fall weather kicks in and families hunker indoors to ‘more screen time’ than summer time norms, I hear tales of media management missteps that would spin heads faster than a Linda Blair Exorcist antic. (yes I know it’s almost Thanksgiving, but I’m still seguing from Halloween here…) I ...
  5 days ago

• Personal Perspective on Cybercrime

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Some perceptions on how our perspective of cybercrime is influenced.Simply stated; our perspective amounts to how we see things from where we stand. But our perspectives on issues and realities can be molded, encouraged or discouraged, and can change over time based on additional data.For the sake of discussion, think ...
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• New Deadlier iPhone Worm hits the Netherlands

  
  Mac Hoe — Authority: 118
  The iKee iPhone worm made by a Rick Ashley fan did not do any harm but It leads to more people developing deadlier worm that could make the iPhone act like a botnet and enables the iPhone to be controlled remotely without the user knowing it.The new iPhone worm is specifically targeted to people of [...]
  6 days 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 ...
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• The Rules of Netiquette for Online Gaming and RPGs

  
  tweenteacher.com — Authority: 110
  The upcoming issue of Imagine Magazine is going to focus on online gaming and role-playing games, so I was pumped when they approached me to see if I was interested in contributing again to their magazine. After all, for all my readers out there, you know that I’m a WoW player, and the prompt they gave me was ...
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• AntiAID and Control Center Fake Antiviruses – Panda Security Takes a Look

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Courtesy of Panda Security: This week’s PandaLabs report looks at AntiAID and ControlCenter fake antiviruses.Removal help for both these nasties follows later in this article. AntiAID is a fake antivirus which when installed on a computer displays a screen comprising several tabs for configuring the protection ...
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• Internet Dangers – Real Life Stories

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Many of my friends think that I lean towards a “scare them to death” philosophy, when it comes to the Internet. I often get badgered with “friendly” questions such as – “Don’t you ever see anything good about the Internet?” Or, “Don’t you get tired of scaring people with all your talk of the [...]
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• Search Engine Results – Not to be Trusted!

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  It’s been more than a year since I last reported on fake search engine results, and in that time, this Internet scam has not gone away, but it did seem to develop a lower profile.Despite developing this lower profile, cyber-crooks continued to be unrelenting in their chase to infect web search results. Recently, ...
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• 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 ...
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• 25 practical ideas for using Mobile Phones in the Classroom

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  We have been writing a lot about ideas on how mobile devices, and particularly phones might be used to support learning. But most of this work has been from a somewhat theoretical angle. Now Jenny Hughes has written a great guest blog on the practical work she has been doing on the use of mobiles in schools. ...
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• They call it Cyber Monday (but Tuesday’s just as bad)*

  
  (ISC)2 Blog — Authority: 420
  In the US, the holiday season is approaching fast, with Thanksgiving  a week away on 26th November. I guess most of us outside the US are aware of Thanksgiving if we work with Americans, since almost the entire country closes down on the 4th Thursday in November. (Apologies to the Canadians in the audience, who had ...
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• DonBot Botnet Goes After Twitter

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Have I got a deal for you! The problem is, I can’t get the details to you because the DonBot botnet is crowding the Twitter playing field. According to Symantec Hosted Services, and as reported by MessageLabs Intelligence, there has been  “a huge jump in the number of spam e-mails that contain a link to [...]
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• 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 ...
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