Mobile Security News archives
GETTING SCHOOLED ON CYBERBULLYING
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsTuesday, June 15th, 2010
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Redbank Green
The message Kevin Clark wants to deliver can’t be spread fast enough.
“Think before you click,” says Clark, director of the Monmouth County prosecutor’s computer crimes unit.
On the ‘duh’ scale, Clark’s maxim may be high up there. But when you get into the online world, the advice is still news to a lot of people, especially children and teenagers, he said.
That’s why Clark used the phrase several times throughout his presentation about cyberbullying and Internet safety to a small group of Red Bank dignitaries (and one curious teacher) on Saturday, with the goal of raising awareness to a new-ish brand of schoolyard teasing that has risen to new, dangerous heights in recent years.
Sexting: Youth Gone wild
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsMonday, June 14th, 2010
Technology aims to improve our lifestyle and make it more convenient. Unfortunately, the disadvantage is always present. There is always pros and cons in everything. Sexting becomes one of the trend that rise up to teenagers and young adults. Sexting is an act of sending explicit messages or photographs between mobile phones.
Sexting has been reported in countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. This has become a controversial issue after it caught the National headline, when an 18-year-old, Jesse Logan of Cincinnati took her own life after her boyfriend proliferate her picture that she had sent him during their relationship.
Cellphone use in schools triggers bullying among teens
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsMonday, June 14th, 2010
WELLINGTON: While teenagers are increasingly using cellphones in schools, but the technology also has a downside-bullying.
Students at Auckland’s Howick College are already using cellphones in class to store lessons, and digital devices are expected to become the equivalent of pens and paper in schools within five years as education technology advances.
But, James Sanderson, a psychology masters student who wrote a thesis on bullying, around 80% teenagers have been a victim of cyber bullying or text bullying at the age of 15.
Cellphones are a symbol of social status.
Bullying via cellphones requires very little technical skill, and it is harder to detect than cyber-bullying.
Editorial: Sexting, teens don’t mix
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsWednesday, June 9th, 2010
Teens live in that wild, wild west and the “bad guys” they are apt to encounter at some time or another include social networking “creepers,” textual harassment, sexting, urban legends, identity theft, cyber bullying and predators.
In presentations he gives to students, school staff and parents, Detroit Lakes teacher and information technology specialist Kent Mollberg said parents need to get a handle on what their children are doing with technology they may not fully understand. Mollberg’s advice: Get educated.
Learn how to monitor web browsers and mobile phone call histories and check them often. Kids should not be allowed to clear them more than once a day.
Cyberbullying ban nears state approval
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsWednesday, June 9th, 2010
BATON ROUGE — The Senate passed a ban on “cyberbullying” today after overhauling how minors would be punished under the measure.
The bill by Rep. Roy Burrell, D-Shreveport, would ban harassing or intimidating someone under the age of 17 by text message, e-mail or posts on social networking sites like Facebook.
Sen. A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell, wanted to amend the bill so it would penalize minors with a civil fine rather than a misdemeanor because of concerns raised in his committee about punishing minors too harshly.
Mobile phone security dos and don’ts
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsTuesday, June 8th, 2010
By Bill Brenner, CSO
Network World
It used to be a luxury to own a smart phone. Now everyone seems to have one, and can’t seem to do their jobs without it. As the number of apps proliferate and the market floods with the latest flavor of BlackBerry, iPhone, Droid, etc., IT security shops face the fairly new problem of keeping mobile-phone-based malware out of their networks.
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New laws to target cyber bullies
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsTuesday, June 8th, 2010
Cyber bullies could be slapped with intervention orders for a one-off offence under new Victorian laws to tackle rising incidents of schoolyard intimidation.
The government will introduce legislation in state parliament this week to better deal with bullies and cyber thugs.
The legislation will expand the grounds on which a person can apply for an intervention order, with a focus on mediation to keep minor cases out of the courts.
Cell phone virus alert
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsTuesday, June 8th, 2010
Some cell phone users need to be on the lookout for a virus. Hackers have inserted viruses in some video games for smart phones that run Microsoft Windows operating system for mobile phones.
The games are “3D Anti-Terrorist ” and “PDA Poker Art.”
Security experts say the games are bundled with malicious software that rings premium rate phone services in Somalia, Italy and other countries.
Those calls could end up hitting phone users in their wallets for hundreds of dollars a month.
Microsoft says it’s investigating the problem.
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Zero tolerance policy needed for bullying
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsMonday, June 7th, 2010
No one can say for sure whether bullying in schools is worse than it used to be, or that in our multimedia society we are just hearing about it more often. In either case, the problem is serious enough to merit the kind of attention it is now getting in the media and, fortunately, in the classroom.
If we didn’t pay enough attention to it in the past, that is certainly no excuse for failure to take action in the present.
Teens – Cell Phones – Sexting
Filed Under: Mobile Security NewsFriday, June 4th, 2010
Sexting: Sexting is the slang term for the use of primarily a cell phone or other similar electronic device to distribute pictures or video of sexually explicit messages or photographs. A growing phenomena known as “Sexting” is causing a growing concern for parents, students, schools, and law enforcement.
We were first introduced to cell phones as a means to communicate when our schedules took us outside of the home. Next came the ability to send written messages, known as texting. As technology continued to improve, taking pictures with your cell phone became a great way to share photos with those not with us.
