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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the school discipline of a student who allegedly bullied a classmate with an Internet page. Read Article

 A new law barring Missouri school teachers from exchanging messages with students on social-media websites such as Facebook is drawing national ...

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...

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

More than half of the parents of teen-agers say they're worried about cyberbullying, a new survey finds. Read Article

A new security hole has opened up in Apple Inc.’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the suscept...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Understanding existing infrastructure and embedding security should still be a priority before adopting cloud computing. Read Article.

Companies are grappling with unforeseen security, privacy and legal conundrums introduced by a host of cool mobile devices flooding into the workplace...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Last year saw the creation of 34 per cent of all malware which has ever existed, according to online security firm PandaLabs. Read Article

The Clark County School District spent $104 million to build the Southwest Career and Technical Academy, at 7050 W. Shelbourne Ave. near Rainbow Boule...

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

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-...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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, ...

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

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...

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

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...

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--...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...