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Would you know what to do if you became a cybercrime victim? Find out: http://bit.ly/LF15JJ

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Cybercrime has many forms: scams, ID theft, stalking, cyberbullying. Learn how to protect you & your family.

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Protect all devices that connect to Internet. Computers, phones, games need protection from viruses & malware.

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Keep a list of passwords stored in safe place away from your computer.

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Make online passwords long and strong. Use a mix of upper and lowercase letters and numbers and symbols. Have a different password for every account....

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Cyber Security begins with STOP. THINK. CONNECT. These three simple words help remind us how to stay safer and more secure online. Learn more at http...

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When in doubt, throw it out! Don’t open links in email, tweets, posts, and online advertising— unless from a trusted source. Learn more a...

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month is a time to STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Learn more about staying safe and secure online at http://stopthinkconnect...

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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Let’s make our online lives safer and more secure! Check out details at http://staysafeonli...

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The Center for Digital Education invites you to a complimentary webinar that will investigate the critical issue of mobile security and management i...

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The International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) Foundation and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have an...

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GOLDEN – All is not golden at Colorado’s oldest school. Administrators are investigating reports that hackers got into Golden High School&...

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April 20, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Some of Berkeley High's best students are among nearly three dozen students suspended for hacking into the s...

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By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal A special competition designed to inspire high school students to consider careers in cybersecurity or related su...

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Managing school-issued laptops via tracking software can be a tricky proposition rife with privacy concerns. At the Consortium of School Networking...

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A new tool for keeping young teens and pre-teens safe while using social media has been launched using simulated situations the youths might face in their daily school lives. Read Article.

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The popularity of smart phones and social networking sites is keeping a growing number of students connected—to danger, deception, and a loss of...

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WEEK ONE -- STOP. THINK. CONNECT.™  On October 7, 2011 in Ypsilanti, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other officials will join NCSA stak...

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Most organizations are starting to think about migrating existing applications, data and infrastructure to the cloud, if they haven't already. Securit...

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Missouri lawmakers on Sept. 23 passed and sent to the governor a bill designed to refriend Facebook and other electronic media for thousands of Missou...

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Now that even the staid Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has loosened its tight rein on social media networks, it’s time for more educato...

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Each year ChildrenOnline.org surveys two to three thousand students in grades four through twelve from some of the many schools we visit. Students are...

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Common Sense Media, an independent nonprofit organization that helps parents and educators teach children how to be savvy users and consumers of media...

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The Federal Communications Commission has released an order that will require schools to educate students about Internet safety in order to comply wit...

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A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered a double setback Aug. 26. First, a judge block...

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The recent examples of two teachers who have come under fire for questionable social media posts should serve as a warning to other educators: Be care...

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As part of its “Stop. Think. Connect” campaign, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has pulled together a wealth of resources from th...

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Experts say children represent an emerging market for identity thieves who steal their Social Security numbers because they offer clean slates that ca...

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There's nothing simple about enterprise security, but there are plenty of best practices that can keep most businesses safe from the most likely and p...

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The Federal Communications Commission has released an order that will require schools to educate students about Internet safety in order to comply wit...

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In the latest development in its national “Don’t Filter Me” campaign, which aims to stop schools from blocking students’ ...

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Cyber-attackers are hitting higher-profile targets and exposing ever-larger volumes of data, whether for financial gain, strategic advantage or to esp...

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A new Missouri state law that bans teachers from privately contacting students via social media has become a lightning rod for opinion as schools and ...

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This whitepaper discusses the latest cyber security trends detected by Verisign® iDefense®. This includes an overview of malicious code and vu...

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A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the school discipline of a student who allegedly bullied a classmate with an Internet page. Read Article
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 A new law barring Missouri school teachers from exchanging messages with students on social-media websites such as Facebook is drawing national ...

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Book banning has long been a controversial issue in the nation's schools. Now some educators say banned websites pose as great a threat to kids' educa...

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A new partnership between Facebook and Time Warner aims to expand the companies’ individual efforts to prevent online bullying. The initiative, ...

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More than half of the parents of teen-agers say they're worried about cyberbullying, a new survey finds. Read Article
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A new security hole has opened up in Apple Inc.’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the suscept...

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Millions of websites all over the world routinely are built with one of the most basic security flaws because software designers are not taught anythi...

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Among the many challenges facing district leaders, student safety can be particularly difficult as new technologies allow for instant and constant com...

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With social media networks ubiquitous in American life, it’s time to shift the debate from whether it’s a good idea for educators to use t...

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A study released this month and co-written by a Florida Atlantic University professor casts new light on the dangers of cyber bullying among teenagers...

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The Department of Commerce released a report that proposes voluntary codes of conduct to strengthen the cybersecurity of companies that increasingly r...

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Research brief looks at a subset of cyber bullying known as 'electronic dating violence'. A study released this month and co-written by a Florida Atla...

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Understanding existing infrastructure and embedding security should still be a priority before adopting cloud computing. Read Article.
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Companies are grappling with unforeseen security, privacy and legal conundrums introduced by a host of cool mobile devices flooding into the workplace...

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Digital devices have made it to where students, faculty and staff can access educational resources regardless of where they are, when they are and who...

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“Facebook for Educators” provides guidance on how educators can use Facebook to enhance learning in the classroom and beyond. In addition,...

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America's K-12 teachers are ill-prepared to educate students on the basics of online safety, security and ethics, and more than a third of teachers re...

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WASHINGTON — May 4, 2011 — A study released today from the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), sponsored by Microsoft Corp., finds th...

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Six out of 10 districts have experienced IT security breaches--either malware outbreaks or unauthorized user access--in the last year, leading to down...

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On March 10, 2011, the White House and Facebook, convened a summit to discuss bullying prevention. Bullying can  happen anywhere  in the &nb...

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According to the State of the Web report by Zscaler, as consumer access patterns shift, cyber-criminal attack techniques may shift with them. Read art...

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CoSN released its Acceptable Use Polices in a Web 2.0 & Mobile Era: A Guide for School Districts, which is aimed at assisting district leaders dev...

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A sneaky computer virus brought the entire Belgrade School District computer system to its knees last week, leaving technology professionals no choice...

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The year 2010 was a hugely significant one for computing criminality and could turn out to mark the beginning of a ‘third era’ of cybercri...

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Think you have what it takes to help us educate Americans about Internet safety and what we can all do to protect ourselves online? If you want to hel...

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Although this article is aimed at business, the suggestions are valid for school systems as well.  Even the biggest websites get hacked. But a fe...

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Last year saw the creation of 34 per cent of all malware which has ever existed, according to online security firm PandaLabs. Read Article
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The Clark County School District spent $104 million to build the Southwest Career and Technical Academy, at 7050 W. Shelbourne Ave. near Rainbow Boule...

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PandaLabs, has forecast that there will be few radical innovations in cyber-crime during 2011. Hacktivism and cyber-war; more profit-oriented malware,...

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Cyber security will be no easier in the new year than it is now, as malware proprietors get more sophisticated in their phishing attempts, malware-as-...

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Cenzic issued a press release today on 2011 cyber security trends.  In a nutshell, we expect to see an increase in security breaches for the upco...

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Hundreds of thousands of students and employees in the Houston school district had their Social Security numbers and other personal data exposed to a ...

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NCSA provides free educational and promotional materials designed to help digital citizens prepare for National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Access...

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The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) today launches the Professional Edition of its Global Resource and Information Directory (GRID) at the House...

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Botnets and attacks on pervasive devices and social networks rank among the biggest information security threats expected next year, according to the ...

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Although this article is written for corporations, there are issues included that are of interest to schools. Here's a look at six security holes that...

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Helping your users choose a password is always a compromise between using something that’s easy-to-remember and something that will give them good pro...

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2004, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to ...

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Although it is hard to solve any problems with 10 easy steps, the following article from eSchool News offers sound advice for schools dealing with bul...

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CyberPatriot is the premier national high school cyber defense competition created to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or ...

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A top 100 national ranking of school districts, indicating which districts keep students safest when searching online, was released today. The 2009-20...

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In May, Massachusetts and Wisconsin passed anti-bullying legislation. In June, New York followed suit, bringing the total of states with anti-bullying...

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The state Education Department released a model antibullying plan yesterday to help local schools develop their own policies to protect students from ...

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A new report confirms what has been a gut feeling in 2010 for cyber-security professionals: An increasing number of sophisticated cyber-attacks are oc...

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The Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) is seeking public comment on the creation of a Cybersecurit...

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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
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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.
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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
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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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