Safety & Security

  • Facebook, states set online safeguards
    Fri, May 09, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    Facebook, the world's second-largest social-networking web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect students and other users from sexual predators and cyber bullies, attorneys general from several states said May 8. [ Read More ]

  • Social-networking apps can pose security risks
    Tue, Apr 29, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    Using those cool little applications designed to enhance social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook can make personal information as public as posting it on a billboard.Trouble is, most students (and educators) never have a clue. [ Read More ]

  • Baker team grabs top computer-security prize
    Fri, Apr 25, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Computer security
    A team of students from Baker College (Mich.) won first place in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC), a cyber defense competition that lets teams of full-time college students apply their IT knowledge to business operations and work to protect an existing network infrastructure. [ Read More ]

  • Videotaped beating sparks national outrage
    Thu, Apr 10, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    The videotaped beating of a 16-year-old Florida girl by other teens whose intent was to post video of the attack on YouTube and MySpace has sparked national outrage and has prompted calls for these sites to better police their content. [ Read More ]

  • Campus bans 'Assassin' game
    Mon, Mar 24, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    When campus police got word that a masked student had a gun at his desk during class, armed officers immediately confronted him, confiscated it, and found out others on campus were carrying weapons as well. [ Read More ]

  • Harvard scholars to explore web safety
    Tue, Mar 04, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    Leading internet scholars at Harvard Law School will head a task force exploring the safety of users at MySpace and other popular internet hangouts, amid growing fears that youngsters have become targets of sexual predators online. [ Read More ]

  • Students slow to embrace text alerts
    Fri, Feb 29, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    The massacre at Virginia Tech last April sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they send alerts to students during crises on campus. One widely adopted solution: text messages sent to cell phones. But while hundreds of campuses have adopted text alerts, most students are not embracing the systems, reports The Associated Press. [ Read More ]

  • Latest trend in school security: Convergence
    Thu, Feb 28, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    Faced with increased security concerns, especially in light of recent school shootings across the U.S., educators are looking for new ways to improve their campus security systems--and converging physical security tools on their campus computer network is the latest trend they are turning to. [ Read More ]

 

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