If the Jessi Slaughter story wasn't enough to convince parents that kids' bedrooms are not great places for Webcams, maybe this news out of Germany will help. A man in the Rhineland area "has been arrested for spying on more than 150 girls in their bedrooms by hacking into their computers and using their webcams to watch them," TheLocal.de reports. A computer security expert who gives talks about … [Read more...] about Videochatting kids spied on via their Webcams
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Growing number of student cybersecurity experts
Here's a great trend: cybersecurity training and competitions at all levels of education, nationwide. Not only is it creating jobs, it'll increasingly send kids the message that it's cool to beat data thieves, phishers, and scammers at their own games "The federal government, education officials and giant military contractors are collaborating to recruit a new class of tech professional … [Read more...] about Growing number of student cybersecurity experts
Short-term or long-term kid & PC security
Here's a very practical way to mark Internet Safety Month (June): free computer-security support for families. But you need to act quickly: Trend Micro will supply $100 worth of security diagnostics and advice to the first 1,000 people who sign up tomorrow (June 15) at FreeDayofSupport.com. Of course, this isn't that great if you're a longtime Norton or Kaspersky user, but it's great if you're not … [Read more...] about Short-term or long-term kid & PC security
Milestone for Net safety: Hemu moves on
Hemanshu Nigam, better known as Hemu, helped MySpace weather some serious Net-safety storms since shortly after News Corp. acquired the social network site. I'm telling you this because today he launched his own company, SSP Blue, about four years to the day he became MySpace's chief security officer. I remember that time well. It was at the height of the US's predator panic, when... MySpace … [Read more...] about Milestone for Net safety: Hemu moves on
Potential iPad glitch for families
Blogger Anton Wahlman at TheStreet.com thinks Apple's going to hurt the iPad's family market by not building in multiple user accounts with passwords for each family member (it's not out yet, so we're not completely sure this is the case). He feels the iPad's a lot more like a laptop than a phone, and "you wouldn't let your kids use your laptop under your personal login, with access to your … [Read more...] about Potential iPad glitch for families