Children surfing the web are at no greater risk than when they are offline, according to US report, it says internet related sexual exploitation of young people remains a concern, but research showed it usually involves adolescents well aware that they are engaging with an adult with a view to sexual activity. The biggest problem for young people, online or off is bullying and harassment by their... Read more.

Security is a top concern for businesses of all sizes, everywhere. Your valuable business data is the lifeblood of your organisation, and protecting it is vital. There may be a host of conflicting messages out there about how to best protect your data. Is not designed to help you resolve every single security problem on a technical level, but rather to help you better understand which are the tru... Read more.

A discreetly tucked away folder that contains your resume, your tax returns and another important file may be convenient for you, but it’s also a gold mine for online crooks that steal and sell digital data on a thriving black market, even though encrypting data unquestionably helps protect it from thieves, many users in the past believed that using encryption tools wasn’t worth the trouble. ... Read more.

SECURITY researcher says they've developed a way to partially crock the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard that is used to safeguard data on many wireless networks. Erik Tews was demonstrate the attack at the PacSec conference in Tokyo in mid November, cracking WPA encryption could be exploited to read data being sent from a router to laptop or sent bogus information to a client co... Read more.

Identify theft has been a federal offense since 1998, but are we getting any better at dealing with it? Actually, the number of identity theft victims per years nearly 2 million from 2003 to 2007 (10.1 million to 8.4 million), according to a javelin strategy & research survey, as reported by the privacy rights, clearing house and the mean time required to undo the damage in each instance was d... Read more.

Computer attacks is space are no longer the stuff of science fiction, recently, laptops on international space station on the international space turned out to have computer viruses, NASA Believes that the malware a pass word stealer that the targets online games, may have infected the laptops via USB thumb drive that one of the astronauts carried aboard, while it wasn’t much of a threat, it jus... Read more.

Do it all suite are the name of the security game these days, sure you can gather free programs that cover the bases much as a suite would, but who wants to bother with finding out which apps work together and which one might leave you pulling your hair out. Your Anti Virus Base For free collection with AVG free 8.0, it installs easily and it works under XP and vista, it ads for its paid versi... Read more.

More than 75 percent of banking sites are not secure, according to a study out of the University of Michigan. A new study from the University of Michigan has found that more than 75 percent of banking websites are not completely up to snuff when it comes to security. The study looked at 214 financial institution websites and focused on both design flaws and improper security practices. None of ... Read more.

A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks. The new malware inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files. "The possibility of this has been known for a little while but this is the first time we've seen it done," said David Emm, senior technology consultant for security vendor Kasp... Read more.