A Pennsylvania school district that was at the center of a highly publicized “sexting” case was sued May 20 by a teenager who claims her principal con...

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Cell phones, texting, IM, email, Facebook, MySpace--kids are interconnected today in ways hardly imagined two decades ago. But these technology-based ...

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Google said Tuesday that fake software security programs rigged to infect computers are a growing online threat with hackers tricking people into inst...

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The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photogr...

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New allegations have surfaced in the case of a suburban Philadelphia school district accused of activating laptop web cameras to spy on students in th...

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Teachers agree that students should learn safe and responsible internet use, but fewer than half say these subjects are required in their districts. L...

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A gay teenager in New York wins $50,000 from a school district that failed to stop taunts about his sexual orientation. The Justice Department investi...

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The threats to your schools’ security—both physical and electronic—are getting more and more sophisticated. With the generous support of Alcatel-Lucen...

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U.S. survey finds universal agreement for teaching cybersafety, security and ethics, yet more than half of teachers say they are not required by their...

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At nearly 100 U.S. organizations -- including schools and local governments -- users with access to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks can steal...

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The latest research from Websense Security Labs paints a dreary but familiar picture of the state of online security threats. Read the entire article....

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A suburban Philadelphia school district used the webcams in school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and t...

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After a year of proliferation of spyware, malware and cyber attacks of all types, security software vendor Symantec warns there's plenty more where th...

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Social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can expect more attention from cybercriminals in 2010, according to a new report (PDF) released Tues...

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A new booklet released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other government agencies helps parents and teachers steer kids safely through the on...

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Parents of Jessica Logan say school officials, peers are partly to blame for their daughter's suicide. Read entire article

Recent survey results reveal that federal IT professionals grappled with more cyber-attacks in 2009 than they did in 2008, with twenty-three percent s...

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Websense® announces the security predictions for the coming year. Using the ThreatSeeker® Network, researchers in Websense Security Labs™ anticipate i...

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"Cybersecurity" focus issue of EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 5 (September/October 2009), <http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/ERVolume442009/ED...

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Today, the Federal Trade Commission opened new areas of a “virtual mall” with content that will help kids learn to protect their privacy, spot frauds ...

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In a recent security survey by Ernst and Young, 25 percent of respondents witnessed an increase in internal threats and 13 percent reported an increas...

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You don't have to look hard to find examples of public and private organizations that have been hacked by viruses and harmful worms - a quick Internet...

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If you Tweet, then definitely check out 12 Tweets about online safety provided by the FTC. Access 12 Tweets here.

e-Rate applicants would have to certify that they are teaching students about internet safety, according to a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Read ...

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Indiana case the latest to address the limits of school discipline in the digital era. Read more

As part of a new federal mandate that requires schools to teach internet safety to obtain e-Rate funding, schools are reaching out to internet safety ...

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Computer technicians are working to eliminate a virus that infected computers in the Tucson Unified School District. TUSD's technology services depart...

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Considering the unprecedented budget hardships in higher education, now may not seem to be an auspicious time to be emphasizing the importance of cont...

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Issues related to youth risk online and Internet use management are high on the “radar” in many schools. Following the lead of Virginia, many states a...

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The theme for National Cyber Security Alliance Month this October is “Our Shared Responsibility.” Increasingly, our nation’s cyber security is critica...

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End users — god bless ‘em. You can’t live with ‘em — but without them, you wouldn’t have a job. They’re the reason you have an IT infrastructure; they...

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WASHINGTON - The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) launched a new interactive, user-friendly website on www.fosi.org to further promote the missio...

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As federal prosecutors in California began this week to try a Missouri woman on charges of online fraud in connection with the suicide of a teenager, ...

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A Charlotte-Mecklenburg elementary teacher who referred to her school as "ghetto" and listed drinking among her favorite activities may be fired while...

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Identity thieves and hackers appear to be coming at Windows users from all fronts, most commonly with spam. They were particularly active during the t...

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by Bridget McCrea With schools and the Internet becoming increasingly intertwined, district IT systems are more and more likely to fall prey to cyber...

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What's the top threat to data security going to be in 2009? According to the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009 out of Georgia Tech's Inform...

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Some sophisticated surfers could get taken in by a sneaky new attack in which criminals create fake YouTube pages--dead-on replicas of the real site--...

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TheFTC staff revised its COPPA Frequently Asked Questions in October 2008, including FAQ 44, pertaining to e-cards and forward-to-a-friend campaigns. ...

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WASHINGTON, DC, A large number of Americans still fail to use basic Internet security tools and there remains a substantial gap between the protection...

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Web security services firm ScanSafe reported that the total number of Web-based malware blocks has increased by 87 percent in July 2008 compared to th...

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A recent article in the T.H.E. Journal "Study: The Year's Top-10 Web Application Vulnerabilites," Dave Nagel states that web applications, by far, dom...

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EDUCAUSE Review contains an article, written by Diana Oblinger and Brian Hawkins, that would be valuable for those in charge of district security incl...

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The EDUCAUSE Review contains an article, written by Diana Oblinger and Brian Hawkins, that would be valuable for those in charge of district security ...

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The Federal Trade Commission has released a set of safety tips for parents and kids for online social networking. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/05/socia...

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