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From the monthly archives:
Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton division has confirmed a parent’s major fear: Kids are using the Internet to get information about sex.
Queries for “sex” (No. 4) and “porn” (No. 5) registered on the search index of OnlineFamily.Norton, a free service used by parents to track their children’s online activities.
This should serve as a “red flag” to parents to [...]
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Instead of going out, Americans now spend more time getting their kicks online due to the recession, according to the results of the poll released Wednesday by market research firm Harris Interactive.
An average American user now spends 13 hours online per week, a big jump from the mere 7 hours from 1999 through 2002. From [...]
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The bad guys of the Internet will be shifting gears next year, targeting file sharing networks more than websites and applications, according to computer security firm Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky Lab has already detected a mass malware epidemic of malicious files being spread through torrent portals. This was mainly the strategy used to spread malware such as [...]
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