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- Cybersecurity
- The protection of data and systems in networks that are connected to the Internet. See information security.
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- WA lawmakers try to address cyberbullying
- For all the fears about online predators, schoolchildren in Seattle face a much more pressing concern: cyberbullying. A report from the Seattle School District found that over 40 percent of youths nationwide report that they were bullied online, while 53 percent said something unkind online. Nearly 60 percent of those...
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- 'Hardware as a service' to block spam
- Filtering spam is a seemingly never-ending headache for school IT admins. Now Sendio offers a solution that may prove to be more effective - the ICE Box, which stands for Intercept, Confirm, or Eliminate, reports Campus Technology. ICE is a "hardware as a service" system, a pun on the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Cyber education site for teens and parents
- Missouri parents and educators have a new program in their arsenal to protect children from online predators, reports the Missouri News Tribune. The privately funded program called INOBTR, or "I Know Better," is a website for teens, parents and teachers that provides tips on how to protect kids and...
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Australian state bans YouTube after attack on girl is posted
- The Victorian State government in Australia has banned YouTube in all schools after an assault on a 17-year-old girl was posted on the popular site, reports the Associated Press The effort to thwart cyber-bullying has resulted in banning the site from all schools in Victoria, Australias most populous state,...
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Surfing anonymously? You just might get a call from campus police
- The intersection between academic freedom and security collided recently in a Bowling Green University professors office. In an opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Paul Cesarini, an assistant professor of visual communication and technology education at BGU, described a university network-security technician and campus police paid him...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- EU con raises awareness of Internet safety in Europe
- In order to educate the public on an increasingly difficult problem, the European Union hosted the fourth annual Internet Safety Day on February 6, reports the BBC. Thirty-one countries participated in events to raise awareness of Internet safety among parents, teachers and kids. "I am calling upon all...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Latest in student phone tech: Mososo
- But can it clean your dorm room? The verdict is still out on whether the omnipresent cellphone and the ever-growing list of services it provides is a positive addition to campus life, reports the Christian Science Monitor. From texting messages to classmates to using Global Positioning Software...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Higher ed struggles to secure its data
- Its no secret that colleges and universities have been a favorite target of hackers. They are repositories of juicy bits of personal information that data thieves love, and after the recent breach at UCLA, schools are grappling with how to patch the holes in their security systems, reports The...
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Sensitive school data winds up in hands of Nigerian ID thieves
- Everyone whos ever bought a computer knows that they have a shelf life of just a few years before they need upgrading. This means that a huge number of computers are thrown out or recycled every year, and many of them are from schools. The St. Louis Post Dispatch has...
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- 800,000 UCLA records compromised in data breach
- In yet another cautionary tale to universities to beef up database security, hackers compromised as many as 800,000 records of personal information, making UCLA the victim of the largest computer security breach ever at an American university. Personal information from UCLAs database of more than 800,000 current and former...
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Sloppy school district auctions PCs with student data
- In another example of how schools fail to take extra precautions to avoid security breaches, a Greenville, NC, school has auctioned off old school computers which contained the Social Security numbers of more than 59,000 Greenville County students, reports The Greenville News. The school is in negotiation with...
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- MySpace unveils new cybersafety feature
- Under increasing pressure to deal with the presence of sexual predators and young children on MySpace, the NewsCorp-owned social networking wunkerkind will soon unveil a new safety feature called Sentinel Safe, Reuters reports. Business analysts say the the personal safety of its online users as well as the...
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Australian kids run wild web of humiliation and abuse
- Schoolyard teasing and gossip, was once restricted to the playground, has reached new heights in the digital world, reports Adelaide Advertiser, an Australian paper. Parents and police officials in Adelaide have uncovered a hornets nest of school children being "victimised, teased and mocked" on an Internet "spider...
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
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- Hackers attacking US utilities overseas
- Cyber warfare isn't just concerned with military and intel computers. Hackers have also attacked foreign facilities of US power utilities, according to a CIA analyst. The Washington Post reports that Tom Donahue, the CIA's top cybersecurity analyst, told an audience of utility security pros: "We do not know who...
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- The secret to secure code--stop repeating old mistakes
- The game of leapfrog between code defenders and attackers in cyberspace will continue to be waged as long as code is written. But the majority of security holes could be eliminated. Its not a technology prowess issue. The problem is that most companies and programmers dont have the basic skills...
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Symantec CEO John Thompson makes the rounds
- Symantec CEO John Thompson has had a busy week, with interviews at the Future in Review conference and Gartner Symposium. Last week was Symantec's annual Vision conference in San Francisco. I caught up with Thompson at the Future in Review conference in San Diego on Monday, and recorded a podcast...
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- ISTE pushes for legislative changes
- Budget appropriations may not be a terribly sexy issue to many of us, but the decisions that the 109th Congress takes up this year will have a far-reaching impact on technology in the classroom, according to the International Society for Technology in Education. In their look at Congressional action, ISTE...
- Blog posts 2006-04-14
- Dear Mr. President: Vote for computational science
- You've seen the movies. Scientists with Zeus-like powers in their secret labs using super powerful computers make discoveries that change the world...for good or evil. Over decades and millennia, the future of society and the planet depend on scientific discoveries, enabled by current and future technology, especially high-performance computing. The...
- Blog posts 2005-06-20
- An antidote for phishing you can't have
- During this morning's PC Forum session, the articulate Symantec CEO John Thompson was talking about how the industry is address the scourge of phishing attacks, which are out of control. He cited a bank that has been very successful fighting phishing attacks—and attacks on the bank's reputation—with a simple, proprietary...
- Blog posts 2005-03-21
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