From the monthly archives:

May 2009

KidZui, The Internet for Kids

by Tregaron on May 27, 2009

I have five children, aged from 5 to 13.  They are all pretty tech savvy and we have several computers in our home that they use.  One day some type of paper came home from school that was advertising KidZui.  It mentioned that it was free to try and my wife and I had been [...]

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Pete Cashmore from Mashable is reporting that some Facebook users are receiving messages with links to goldbase.be and other .be websites with the subject line of “Look at This”. DO NOT click the links to any of these sites: goldbase.be greenbuddy.be silvertag.be picoband.be According to Mashable, if you receive any of these Facebook messages you [...]

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New Facebook Phishing Scams

by Matt on May 21, 2009

There is a new phishing scam is hitting Facebook users today. Facebook users receive a message from a friend that directs them to a site with an official looking Facebook login. When users login, the site captures the email and password, uploads malware to the computer, and then sends a similar message to all of [...]

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Facebook Quizzes and Applications

by Matt on May 12, 2009

Please be careful with the quizzes on Facebook. When you sign up for them you are agreeing to share your personal information. Allowing [Quiz Name] access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work. By proceeding, you are allowing [Quiz Name] to access your [...]

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Online Protection Basics

by Matt on May 3, 2009

You and your family use the internet for education, entertainment, research, social networking, communication, shopping, and myriad other valuable reasons. When you connect your computer to the internet, it is immediately vulnerable to countless threats (malware) including adware, keystroke loggers, rootkits, spyware, virus, worms, etc. The intent of most of this malware is to gather [...]

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