Cyber Monday and holiday shopping guidelines

Cyber shoppers: do not under estimate the risks when shopping online. Take a look at MySecureCyberspace Online Shopper's Holiday Guide to Security Practices before you start your shopping. A few guidelines to keep in mind is enough to shop in safety and enjoy the season!

Guidelines: http://www.mysecurecyberspace.com/articles/features/an-online-shoppers-holiday-guide-to-security-practices.html

Cyber Monday: http://www.mysecurecyberspace.com/articles/features/cyber-monday.html

the history of the Internet

The history of Internet is available on many sites and presentations, but this one is one of the best, concise and complete at the same time.

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/

Follow Us on Twitter for a Word a Day

The Cyber Word of the Day today is AAA Protocol, which you'd know already if you saw us on Twitter. AAA Protocol involves the three elements necessary to insure privacy and security of online information (learn more).

You can brush up on your Internet vocabulary easily by following MySecureCyberspace on Twitter. Search for MySecureCyber on Twitter and click Follow.

Spammed by Facebook games?

Interested in growing vegetables in farmville? Or playing mafioso in Mafia Wars? Well, those FB games come for free, but read about what can happens... suspected Internet scams: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1935698,00.html

Google Dashboard

If you use Google, you imagine that they know a lot about you. Your preferences, your interests, which services and products you use...

Now it is Google itself that lets us know what they know about us. Google Dashboard, available at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/11/google-dashboard.html. Very interesting. Something to try.

Cloud Computing: you have done it too.

A trip on the clouds: a simple-to-understand article by John Sutter on cloud computing. Read how this new concept applies already to most of our everyday's life of cyber users... whenever you post pictures online, or send email, or save documents on online servers. The point is: can we really trust those "clouds"?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/04/cloud.computing.hunt/index.html

Who is most at risk online?

A good study from GetSafeOnline.org about the demographics of the users most at risk. You may think it is the seniors, tipically saying that they are not the digital generation, instead it is the young users. Even tough young users are certainly competenent and expert in pretty much all the online actvities, they still underestimate the risks...

http://www.getsafeonlineblog.org/whos-most-at-risk-online

Windows 7: 10 things you need to know

10 things you need to know about Windows7.

Good advices from NetWorkWorld.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101909-windows7.html?t51hb

Young Guns

Kids these days think they know everything... well, in some cases that's not too far from the truth.

The British secret intelligence agency MI5 recruited some cyber-savvy teenagers into its ranks in the latest actions by a government to shore up defense of information networks.

According to a report, British Security Minister Evans has revealed that over 1,000 hits were made on computers in Whitehall (the Parliament district of London) during the summer.

The new teen crime fighters signed an agreement to keep their on-the-job activities confidential... even from their parents. So, Mom & Dad, if your teenager is spending late nights online, protecting national security *could* be a valid excuse, but it's still ok--and recommended--that you keep tabs on your teen's online activities.

See MySecureCyberspace recommendations on parental monitoring tools.

A little bit of drama... how the Internet will die?

Five End Game Scenarios - How the INTERNET Will Die
Theories on how the Internet will end and one where it lives forever!

(from NetworkWorld, by Jamey Heary http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/45157?t51hb )