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Abuse of Social Network sites: E-Safety for children

By Guest PostDecember 29, 2013Small Business, Technologyabuse, behaviour, bullying sub group, child friendly, children, cyber bullying, demeanour, e safety, ly, mythology, non profit site, personal information, photographs, predators, quib, social network sites

Most parents will by now wonder how they can protect their children and direct them to child-safe websites. Fortunately a non-profit site, Quib.ly offers a forum where concerned parents, teachers and care-givers can seek out the advice of experts in the field of cyber technology as well as child development psychology. If you visit this site you may well find that your particular concern is shared by others. Experts in their respective fields will be able to steer you in the direction of child-safe websites and you will have the opportunity to share knowledge gained by parents in your position.

You will probably find that most contributors on Quib.ly will suggest that you engage with the child when he or she does web-surfing and then alert the child to sites that may be age-inappropriate, content inappropriate or predatory sites operating under the guise of child-friendly, or “cool”. Educate them to the risks of scam artists, pedophiles, and how to use intuitive and learned skills to avoid them. (more…)

Smartphone users value their privacy and are willing to pay for it, CU-Boulder economists find

By Guest PostDecember 22, 2013Technologyandroid, app, apps for iphone, atlanta, boulder, Chicago, denver, digital anonymity, donald m waldman, engine research foundation, kinds of privacy, online privacy, personal information, philadelphia, privacy, public policy, scott j savage, smartphone users, takashi hososhima, typical application, university of colorado, value, windows smartphone

Average smartphone users are willing to pay up to $5 extra for a typical application—or “app”—that won’t monitor their locations, contact lists and other personal information, a study conducted by two economists at the University of Colorado Boulder has found.

The researchers believe theirs is the first economic study to gauge the monetary value smartphone users place on privacy. That value is measured in consumers’ “willingness to pay” for five different kinds of digital anonymity. (more…)

Spear Phishing: Researchers Work to Counter Email Attacks that Gain Recipients’ Trust

By Guest PostJanuary 13, 2013Technologyandrew howard, attachment, corporate networks, counter, dynamic framework, e newsletter, email attacks, email system, employee, generic emails, georgia tech, gtri, knowledge, malicious attachments, malicious software analysis, malware, marketing plan, open this attachment, organization, password, personal information, phalanx, research institute, sec, spear phishing, titan, user, verify your password, website

The email resembled the organization’s own employee e-newsletter and asked recipients to visit a website to confirm that they wanted to continue receiving the newsletter. Another email carried an attachment that said it contained the marketing plan the recipient had requested at a recent conference. A third email bearing a colleague’s name suggested a useful website to visit.

None of these emails were what they pretended to be. The first directed victims to a website that asked for personal information, including the user’s password. The second included a virus that launched when the “marketing plan” was opened. The third directed users to a website that attempted to install a malicious program. (more…)

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Abuse of Social Network sites: E-Safety for children

Smartphone users value their privacy and are willing to pay for it, CU-Boulder economists find

Spear Phishing: Researchers Work to Counter Email Attacks that Gain Recipients’ Trust