Internet Safety | Steve Ensley

Study: Internet addiction a growing problem among youth

February 2nd, 2012

Usually on this blog I am writing about security issues, social sites and items of immediate concern for Internet users. The article in the link below caught my eye because it has a focus on a long term effect, one that I have been concerned about and preached about for a long time. http://www.wtop.com/?nid=267&sid=2729726 The [...]

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Norton Symantec reports pcAnywhere security breach!

January 27th, 2012

If you are using pcAnywhere, the company is recommending you disable or uninstall the product until they can release a new version. It seems their code was stolen and is in the hands of hackers. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/26/dont-use-our-product-symantec-warns-customers/ As an ISP (American Family Online) and a filtering company, we see lots of issues with Norton products, but [...]

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Google announces privacy changes; users CAN NOT opt out

January 25th, 2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-tracks-consumers-across-products-users-cant-opt-out/2012/01/24/gIQArgJHOQ_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNE_b Wow! This happened even faster than I thought it would! A quote from within the article above says it all: “There is no way anyone expected this,” said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group. “There is no way a user can comprehend the implication of Google [...]

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