Russian governmental bodies have confirmed the unified criteria, which can be used to detect child sexual abuse images, propaganda of suicide or illicit drugs on the Internet.
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Symantec: harmful software pretends to be an antivirus update
Perpetrators have come up with the new way to infect users’ computers.
According to Symantec experts, the perpetrators have invented the new method of infecting their victims’ computers using social engineering tools. The creators of viruses send emails that pretend to be newsletters from a famous antivirus companies offering the latest update.
How to teach children to love Internet
Volunteers of the CHILDREN.WITHUS have been teaching for over year. In various social and educational establishments they have been telling how to use Internet smartly and safely. This year they have visited hospitals, orphanages and schools and even organized classes for elderly people in social centers.
Eight new psychiatric disorders given to the human kind by the Internet and smartphones
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Silence the internet trolls: Web button replaces abusive comments with words such as ‘love, rainbow and candyfloss’
- The web button can be added to the Chrome and Safari browsers
- When activated it scans websites for abusive comments and swear words
- The VQ-Hab tool replaces negative language with ‘words of love’
The concept of children’s information security, developed by Roscomnadzor in collaboration with the expects, will be presented for public discussion in December 2013
Currently Roscomnadzor works on the concept in collaboration with psychologists, culture specialists, linguists, sociologists, medical professionals, journalists and specialists in other various humanitarian disciplines.
.ДЕТИ domain is a point of development of the Internet for children
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How searchable are you? Information security tips from the world’s best
These days we have a password for everything. We click on an email when we forget, we reset and off we go again. But where does all this information go?
“I’d say most people make choices that are bad from a security perspective,” says Dr Hugh Thompson, a world renowned specialist in information security.
Internet is a place where children and parents meet up
Anatoliy Prokhorov is not only the head of Smeshariki project and the chairman of the supervisory board of the Razumniy Internet Foundation, but he is also a culture expert and media researcher. At the “Content 0+” round table organized by the Razumniy Internet Foundation he told about the ways Internet should participate in children’s development.
Parental control on Google Chrome
Google is testing a filter for its browser which will allow parents to protect their children from the websites with unreliable content.
According to Wikipedia, parental control is a complex of rules and measures directed at prevention of negative influence of the Internet on a child.