CyberSafety-Anonymous, Dating and Chatroom Apps Should Raise a Red Flag
CyberSafety – Anonymous, Dating and Chatroom Apps Should Raise a Red Flag When kids go online they often engage with other people. That’s after all the point of social networking, isn’t it? Unfortunately, kids often go outside of their “known in the flesh” social circle and engage with strangers online. This can put them in potentially dangerous situations that sometimes they find out about the hard way. Four men in Bloomington Indiana were arrested with having sex with a 13 year old teen. She met these men on Whisper, an anonymous social networking app. There are many other...
Read MoreAre Online Risks Tilting the Scales?
Are Online Risks Tilting the Scales? Weight of Online Risks is Getting Heavier… Would you ever take your child into the heart of a major city and leave them unattended? Of course not! When kids go online via any computer device they are entering a borderless, unregulated world where they can engage with anyone across the globe. They are exposed to all kinds of content, good and bad. There is no doubt that today’s digital world has made parenting more challenging, but parents need to be engaged in their children’s online world just as they are their offline world. The Internet is...
Read MoreHacking, Webcams and Sextortion!
Miss Teen USA’s computer was hacked, then nude images were taken via her webcam. Cassidy Wolf was completely unaware that this was going on and that the hacker was watching her in the privacy of her bedroom. She was then threatened with sextortion if she didn’t comply with the hacker’s requests. The hacker sent her a message that said this according to a CNN report, “Either you do one of the things listed below or I upload these pics and a lot more (I have a LOT more and those are better quality) on all your accounts for everybody to see and your dream of being a model will be...
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