- Protecting Your Child's Social Network from Cybercreeps
- Is Your Netbook Safe From Hackers?
- Don't Let Halloween Malware Turn Your PC Into a Nightmare

Protecting Your Child's Social
Network from Cybercreeps

Every day millions of users keep up with friends, extend their networks and share photos on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. But what happens when our children and their friends join and become active in the very same social networking sites? Read more >

Is Your Netbook Safe From Hackers?

First came laptops. Then smart phones. Now there are netbooks, smaller computing devices with capabilities that land them somewhere between a smart phone and laptop.

Netbooks are built around less powerful processors than laptops, so they're perfect for the basics like email, Web browsing, and word processing, as opposed to graphic intensive applications like gaming. Memory and hard drive capacity are on the light side too. Most models ship with 512MB RAM, which is enough for basic applications, and their flash drives are rarely larger than 8 or 16GB. So what about security? Read more >

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Halloween can be spooky enough without being tricked into opening the Internet door to some seriously ghoulish intruders. One of the most notorious phishing scams lured Halloween fans into downloading a dancing skeleton. Read more >