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Akamai Technologies has released its State of the Internet report for the first quarter of 2012, based on data collected from its massive global network. While Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 182 unique countries, the highest level of observed attacks originated in the Asia-Pacific region over the quarter, the report found. More than 42 [...]

Online Piracy: Challenging the ‘three strikes’ approach The ‘graduated response’ strategy to stopping illegal online filesharing has been replicated in countries around the world from South Korea to New Zealand, France and the UK. Whilst the sanctions and legal process differ, the general ‘three strikes or you’re out’ approach works by sending warnings to customers [...]

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Cyber Attack – Blizzard owns up to data hemorrhage – painful but probably not too bad Big-time online entertainment outfit Blizzard has just owned up to a data hemorrhage. One silver lining here (and you know how much I like to find those in any security calamity) is that there doesn’t seem to be any [...]

Imagine you receive an email from a friend that includes a link to a Facebook profile.  You click on the link and see your name and picture on the profile.  But you didn’t create it.  And some of the information included isn’t exactly flattering. In fact, it’s embarrassing, and malicious, and ruining your reputation.  Now [...]

As a followup to our last blog post, we’d like to share some more guidance to keep in mind as you are updating and refining your school’s policy related to Facebook (and other social networking sites). We hope this is helpful for you. Please remember, though, that you must do a lot more than policy [...]

Estimates of the number of teens who have experienced cyberbullying are all over the map. I can point you to a paper published in a peer-reviewed academic journal that says that 72% of students have been cyberbullied while another published study puts the number at 5.5%. The numbers are similarly varied when it comes to [...]

What is Cyber Cyber (or commonly known as Cyber Space) is the term used to define the area of the Internet that you cant touch. This includes the use of electronic (your PC) and the electromagnetic spectrum (the air/space that the information flows through) to store (like on your hard drive or removable media), modify [...]