A $59,900 price tag has been proposed for teaching Utah parents and children about the dangers that lurk online. HB132 would provide Utah’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force with the funds necessary to hire a full-time education officer and to develop educational Internet safety programs for use in schools and communities. Additional funding would [...]
Millions of kids use the internet every day. They do their homework, email their friends, play games, download music, watch videos and chat with each other online. While it’s a great educational and social tool, we know that it’s also a vehicle for scammers and predators who can put kids (and adults) at risk. Parents [...]
Gary McGraw breaks down the numbers from 2007, showing that software security is making headway in the enterprise even against economic headwinds. The field of software security (also called application security by some) continues to grow and is beginning to move beyond early adopters and into a broader market. In my 2007 article Want Turns [...]
A federal appeals court in California is reviewing a lower court’s definition of “interception” in the digital age, in a case that some legal experts say could weaken consumer privacy protections online. The case, Bunnell v. Motion Picture Association of America, involves a hacker who in 2005 broke into a file-sharing company’s server and obtained [...]
