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posted on May 25, 2010 09:19
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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posted on May 05, 2010 14:24
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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posted on May 04, 2010 14:33
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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posted on April 26, 2010 12:18
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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posted on April 19, 2010 12:07
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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posted on April 09, 2010 09:22
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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posted on April 01, 2010 10:23
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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posted on March 01, 2010 13:39
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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posted on February 26, 2010 13:07
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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posted on February 23, 2010 13:16
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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posted on February 19, 2010 11:34
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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posted on February 19, 2010 09:30
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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posted on February 15, 2010 10:23
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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posted on January 22, 2010 14:14
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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posted on December 17, 2009 11:49
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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posted on December 14, 2009 11:34
Parents of Jessica Logan say school officials, peers are partly to blame for their daughter's suicide. Read entire article
posted on December 07, 2009 11:27
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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posted on December 07, 2009 11:12
Websense® announces the security predictions for the coming year. Using the ThreatSeeker® Network, researchers in Websense Security Labs™ anticipate i...
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posted on December 07, 2009 11:10
"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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posted on December 07, 2009 10:44
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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posted on November 30, 2009 11:45
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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posted on November 30, 2009 11:28
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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posted on November 19, 2009 09:49
If you Tweet, then definitely check out 12 Tweets about online safety provided by the FTC.
Access 12 Tweets here.
posted on November 13, 2009 10:06
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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posted on November 02, 2009 11:14
Indiana case the latest to address the limits of school discipline in the digital era. Read more
posted on October 20, 2009 08:56
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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posted on September 22, 2009 13:59
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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posted on September 11, 2009 14:33
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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posted on September 11, 2009 13:54
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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posted on August 26, 2009 14:29
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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posted on August 21, 2009 14:19
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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posted on January 01, 2009 13:31
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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posted on November 20, 2008 12:52
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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posted on November 12, 2008 13:04
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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posted on November 03, 2008 13:15
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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posted on October 28, 2008 13:08
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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posted on October 17, 2008 13:22
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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posted on October 09, 2008 13:27
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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posted on October 07, 2008 12:41
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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posted on October 02, 2008 13:38
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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posted on August 02, 2008 12:45
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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posted on March 04, 2008 12:32
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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posted on June 01, 2006 12:19
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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sharpl posted on June 01, 2006 12:10
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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posted on May 09, 2006 12:02
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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