Showing posts with label Software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Software. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
MaskMe - Tired of giving out your email address to a website and getting tons of email spam? (Google Chrome)
Description:
Use MaskMe to stay private when websites ask you for your personal information.
Tired of giving out your email address to a website and getting tons of email spam?
When an online form demands your email or phone number, MaskMe will spring into action - allowing you to choose between giving out your real contact information or creating “masked information."
MaskMe Features:
- Turns off unwanted spam or phone calls with one click
- Generates strong, unique passwords and remembers them so you don't have to
- Encrypts and stores passwords and online accounts in one safe place, for your eyes only
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
A Mouse Click Away: Porn's Insidious Business Model
It will find you only if you visit porn or other sites, which are probably infested with viruses, scams, spyware, etc, or if you install an application that is not from a trusted source. Don't forget, there are also criminals out there stealing your private information as well, so don't post any of your personal information online, period! You should have a program that protects you from all this. We recommend Zone Alarm, but there are many others as well.
10/02/2012
By Mark Martin
The United States is the number one producer and distributor of illegal pornography. It's a multi-billion dollar industry, and you may be surprised by what's behind the hard core business boom.
While innocently surfing the net, your child can come face to face with a sexually explicit pop-up ad.
"Even if you're not looking for it, you could be innocent," 15-year-old Zach said. "If you go on the computer, on the Internet, and you're looking for something good, it will find you."
"It is deviant," Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said. "It's aberrant. Kids are seeing content that no 12 or 13 year old is mentally, psychologically, or emotionally prepared to deal with."
- Well parents should install software to block those types of sites. It can be done, if you take the time to do it, or get a professional to do it. And that is also why porn sites, in our opinion, should be behind an .XXX domain, so it can easily be blocked.
A Mouse Click Away
If parents don't know what to look for or how to protect their kids online, a click of the mouse can usher in a nightmare.
Take for instance, "Rene," whose 11-year-old son is victim of Internet pornography.
"Through a minimized porn site and our computer's history button, we discovered that our precious 11-year-old son had been to hundreds of Internet pornography sites in the middle of the previous few nights," Rene told CBN News.
Rene's son became hooked.
"We have spent the last 10 years trying to keep our son away from this "drug," with little success, seeking counselors who could help him and being frustrated and angry that we were unable to protect our child," she said.
- So did you get a professional to install software to block all this? Apparently not!
Immoral Cash Flow
Morality in Media President Patrick Trueman told CBN News the $120 billion porn industry blankets the Internet with millions of websites.
The young aren't the only victims. Adults also become intensely addicted while porn executives become incredibly wealthy.
"The bulk of the commercial pornography industry is a relative handful, 60 to 80 companies that control most of those commercial sites," Trueman said.
"So they're looking for revenue, and you don't just get revenue when someone buys your video or buys time on your website for either a live performance or to view a video," he said.
Simply clicking on a pop-up ad fills the pockets of the porn industry without the Internet user even buying anything.
"What you in fact get money for is the clicks," Trueman said. "It's the business model that Google has, and so the more you click the more money they make."
"Some people think, 'Well, I just look at it a little bit,' he continued. "Yes, every time you do, the porn industry makes money."
"Then you multiply that individual by millions of people in the United States that do the same thing; the porn industry's getting rich off you," Trueman said.
Safeguarding Your Family
Internet safety experts say a strong defense at home is the only way to stop this immoral cash flow.
Families need to block content and establish safety rules for kids and adults. This can be done through filtering and monitoring software and through accountability partners.
- Yes, families need to do this, or get a professional, or else "Big Brother" will step in and start regulating the Internet for you.
"So that every website that that individual goes to, you get an email giving you an update of where they've been," Trueman explained. "That's accountability, and you need that."
"Know what your kids are doing online, and stay engaged with them, and recognize that you can't do it alone," Donna Rice Hughes, executive producer of Internet Safety 101, told CBN News. "You need some help."
It's timely advice, especially with research showing porn's effect on the family.
Four out of five 16-year-olds now regularly access the illicit material online, and more than half of divorces name Internet pornography as a primary reason for the breakup of the marriage.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Open States Application - Lets you stay on top of what's happening in your state capitol
Labels: National , OpenStates , Software , Video
Get the application | Web SiteDescription:
Open States lets you stay on top of what's happening in your state capitol. Read bills being considered to become law and find out where they currently stand in the legislative process. Find out which politicians support or oppose specific bills and even who introduced legislation you’re interested in. Research legislators' voting histories and campaign contributions. Or read policy news affecting your state from Stateline.org, a product of the Pew Center on the States. The app will even help you identify who represents your community in your state’s legislature.
Features:
- Current information about state legislation and state-level legislators for every state supported by the Sunlight Foundation's Open State Project -- 47, plus DC and Puerto Rico. (all 50 states are expected to be online by spring 2012)
- Geolocation capabilities help identify your representatives.
- Get voting records, committee assignments, campaign finance info and bill sponsorship info for all state reps.
- Get relevant policy news affecting the states.
- Review district boundaries.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Privacy software, criminal use
Labels: International , National , Privacy , Security , Software
03/08/2012
By Jenifer B. McKim
Unintended consequence of Walpole firm’s technology
A Walpole nonprofit company, largely funded by the federal government, is inadvertently providing child pornographers, drug dealers, and other criminals around the world with software that allows them to remain anonymous on the Internet.
The little-known organization, Tor Project Inc., says its free program is designed to help people protect themselves from Internet surveillance. Users include those speaking out against oppressive political regimes in other countries, corporate whistle-blowers, law enforcement officials, and domestic abuse victims.
But the software, which can easily be downloaded from the Tor Project website, also is attracting a growing number of people who trade illegal pornographic material and buy and sell drugs on a part of the Web known as the “darknet,’’ according to federal authorities, advocates for children, and Internet specialists.
Its use for illicit purposes creates new challenges for law enforcement officials hunting increasingly technologically savvy criminals, and highlights the sometimes unwanted consequences of protecting free speech online.
The darknet is “a secret Internet,’’ said Chester Wisniewski, senior adviser at Burlington computer security company Sophos Inc. “It’s free speech to the extreme. It’s really tragic there are some sickos using this same technology for their purposes.’’
The Tor Project is widely considered the largest service in the world that allows users to navigate the Internet anonymously. Andrew Lewman, the organization’s executive director, said he is approached regularly by law enforcement officials whose investigations have been frustrated by Tor technology, which hampers authorities’ ability to identify suspected online criminals and masks the origin of child pornography and drug-dealing websites.
But Lewman said Tor Project and its software can’t be blamed for aiding crimes in the same way cellphone and computer makers should not be held accountable for the misuse of those devices. He has rejected informal requests by law enforcement agencies to create a way for them to identify Tor users, saying it would defeat the purpose of the software. But Lewman said he is willing to help investigators better understand the technology, and provides a link on the Tor website for anybody to report evidence of child pornography.
“I’m not going to compromise Tor,’’ said Lewman, who works out of a small storefront office on Main Street in Walpole. “‘Good’ is so relative around the world. I bet the Egyptian government didn’t think their activists were good.’’
Tor stands for “the onion routing’’ project, initiated by the US Naval Research Laboratory in the 1990s to camouflage government communications by sending messages through a system of computers. The project was expanded in 2001 by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who made the technology more accessible to civilians. An added feature called “hidden services,’’ launched in 2004, allows people to publish and visit websites without being identified.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Electronic Frontier Foundation introduces HTTPS Everywhere
Labels: International , National , Security , Software
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| Click the image to visit the site and install the plug-in |
Monday, December 5, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Contact Congress: Your Letters
08/25/2011
By Donny Shaw
As congressional approval reaches new lows, it’s more important than ever that people have a reliable public forum for communicating with their members of Congress. Yet, as we’ve seen during this August recess, communicating with Congress is actually getting more difficult. Less than half of senators and representatives are holding public town hall meetings this year. Constituents trying to speak with their members are being threatened with arrest, and those fortunate enough to be able to attend meetings are having their rights to document the public events violated by police.
Clearly we need better channels for open discourse between the public and their elected officials. That’s what motivated us to build our free and open-source suite of OpenCongress v.3 tools, which put engaging with Congress at the center of the site experience.
Until now, to email members of Congress people had to visit separate websites for their three lawmakers, fill out three different web forms, and submit messages via an opaque system that, frankly, feels like it feeds to a paper shredder at the other end. With our Contact-Congress tool, now you can email all three of your lawmakers at the same time, get a custom permalink to your letter, share it with your social networks, and track responses on a public forum. Plus, our unique message-builder platform makes it easy to add campaign finance information relevant to your topic, important bits of legislative text, comments from peers, and more in one click. Full details of how that works here.
Since we launched OpenCongress v.3 about one month ago, we’ve delivered more than 1,500 original messages to Congress about specific pieces of pending legislation. That may not sound like a lot compared to the numbers organization get with their petitions and form letters, but these are all individually-crafted, personalized and detail-rich messages, which research shows have a much stronger impact on members of Congress. According to a study from the Congressional Management Foundation, “Only 3% of staff surveyed say identical form postal mail would have ‘a lot’ of influence on their Member of Congress if he/she had not reached a decision. In contrast, 44% report individualized postal letters would have ‘a lot’ of influence.” And, in case you’re wondering, email and postal mail are equally influential to an undecided Member.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
FBI releases app to assist in finding missing children
08/08/2011
By Ed Oswald
Echoing a move made by other government agencies as of late, the FBI on Monday debuted its first in-house mobile application called Child ID. The iOS app aims to give parents a central location to store information about their children in the event they are lost or kidnapped.
The app will store information such as vital statistics and pictures of the child, which then can be easily e-mailed to law enforcement to aid in their investigations. The FBI has also included information on keeping children safe, as well as what to do if your child does indeed go missing.
The FBI stressed that while the app does collect information, it does not send the information to the agency. "All data resides solely on your mobile device unless you need to send it to authorities," it said.
Currently the app is only available for the iOS platform, and can be downloaded now in the App Store. The FBI said it has plans to release Child ID for other platforms, but in all cases it would not charge for it. It also plans to publicize the app through public service announcements to air in the near future.
Both the National Child Identification Program and the American Football Coaches Association would help to get the word out on the app. The AFCA is producing the PSA, but would also publicize its availability at football games around the country.
Friday, August 5, 2011
RoboForm - The BEST password management system out there!
Easy Logins
It's now easier than ever to login to your favorite websites and applications. RoboForm makes the process effortless by automatically saving, then entering your usernames and passwords. Simply click and login-similar to a browser bookmark! You'll never need to remember or type another password again.
Fill Forms Fast
Use our RoboForm Identities feature to securely store your name, address, email, credit cards, and all other personal information. Just click on your RoboForm Identity to fill entire web forms automatically. Save yourself hours of needless typing!
Access From Everywhere
Access your RoboForm Logins and Identities on all your computers and devices. RoboForm runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Windows USB drives. We also have apps for most popular mobile phones including the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. Use our RoboForm Everywhere (Online) service to synchronize and back up your data with our servers, and enjoy secure one-click form access everywhere!
GoodSync - An easy and reliable file backup and file synchronization software
It automatically analyzes, synchronizes, and backs up your emails, precious family photos, music, contacts, financial documents, and other important files locally - between desktops, laptops, servers, external drives, and Windows Mobile devices, as well as remotely through FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and more.
GoodSync synchronizes and backs up files such as photos, financial documents, MP3s, e-mails between desktops, laptops, servers, and external drives.
GoodSync is the latest software in a series of highly reliable, easy-to-use products from Siber Systems, the makers of RoboForm. It uses an innovative synchronization algorithm that offers true bi-directional synchronization.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Protect your kids from Facebook stalkers and cyberbullies with SocialGuard
Labels: OnlineSafety , Security , SocialNetwork , Software , Video , website
04/27/2011
CheckPoint Software has introduced a new member of its ZoneAlarm product family. ZoneAlarm SocialGuard has a narrow focus: its sole aim is to monitor children's Facebook accounts in order to alert parents to suspicious activities such as cyberbullying, Internet grooming and inappropriate content.
SocialGuard works alongside existing security software, including ZoneAlarm's own free firewall software, to provide real-time alerts should potentially dangerous activity be detected on up to five monitored Facebook accounts. The parent can then review the alert and take whatever action he or she deems to be appropriate.
CheckPoint is keen to stress that ZoneAlarm SocialGuard is not a general purpose spying tool, giving parents unfettered access to their children's Facebook accounts. Instead it respects the child's privacy by only providing alerts to suspicious activities based on a number of criteria: cyberbullying, friend requests from strangers, inappropriate content (including links), age concerns and hacked accounts. All other activity is ignored, and the parent has no other access to the child's Facebook account.
These alerts are, by default, emailed to both child and parent, and ZoneAlarm SocialGuard requires that both email address and password for each Facebook account is entered in order to set up the initial connection between the two. This is a one-time only action, and in most cases will require the child's co-operation in the form of either releasing the password or entering it into the program.
The application also allows parents to review the child's list of friends, providing extra information about each friend to help the parent identify them as trusted. It also scans previous content as well as providing protection going forward.
ZoneAlarm SocialGuard is available as a free download of a 7-day trial for Windows XP, Vista and 7. The software is currently available for an introductory rate of $1.99 per month, or $19.99 per year.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
OFF TOPIC - Roboform - Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management
I have used this program for many years, and would not use anything else. This allows you to have passwords for all sites you visit, and they are all password protected with one main password. It also allows you to create STRONG random passwords, passwords like: dPyGF4hw!9eXAJE!kLZ# and you do not have to remember it.... I strongly recommend this program to everyone, it's worth it. Also, you should also change your passwords often. I change mine every single month.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
TN - Dozens of child predator arrests attributed to ORNL software
Labels: Disinformation , eAdvocate , Software , Tennessee , Video
The following article entitled "Dozens of child predator arrests attributed to ORNL software" from the "Sex Offender Research: Issues, News and Recidivism" blog, points out the misleading article about how this software actually works. Click the link above to view the article.
Comments from eAdvocate:
Comments from eAdvocate:
Software here does not find offenders, what it does is search hard drives of offenders already arrested likely waiting in jail. Notice stats, used in 50 cases which resulted in 30 arrests. That means 20 people were unlawfully detained or said another way, the software was wrong 40% of the time. I'd say thats a bad record and those folks need to be suing for false arrests.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
CA - Sex, hot online search topic for children: Norton
12/17/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Sex was a hot online search topic for children in 2009, according to findings released by Internet security specialty firm Norton.
While the top three search terms for Internet users under the age of 18 were YouTube, Google, and Facebook, the words "porn" and "sex" took the next two positions, based on data from Symantec-owned Norton.
"These terms should raise a red flag to parents if they haven't had 'The Talk' with their children about content that may not be appropriate for kids," Symantec said in a release.
Boys' top 25 searches centered on social networking, games, shopping, and "adult terms," according to Norton.
Girls were also interested in online social networking websites, but their top 25 searches leaned more toward music, movies, celebrities, and television shows.
The findings were derived from 14.6 million searches conducted between February 2 and December 4 by users of a free OnlineFamily.Norton service that parents can use to filter or monitor their children's Internet use.
"When it comes to online threats, parents need to be concerned about more than just their child running into inappropriate content," said Norton Internet safety advocate Marian Merritt.
"What makes OnlineFamily.Norton unique is that it gives parents insight into kids' online activities and what interests them most so that parents can ensure they have a discussion with them about topics they're curious about, as well as protect them from cyberthreats."
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
WA - Microsoft To Release Free Antivirus PC Software
Labels: Software , Virus , Washington
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"TThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (United States Constitution, Bill of Rights)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
McAfee SiteAdvisor - Helps take the guesswork out of Web security
Labels: OnlineSafety , Security , Software , website
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Free Disk Encryption and Email (Make them get a warrant to search your machine!)
Labels: Software
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
NJ - New Website Offers Holistic Approach to Protecting Children Online
Labels: NewJersey , OnlineSafety , Software , website
Once again, they do not tell you if children are being solicited online by other peers (teens) or adults, but they lead you to believe it's all from adults, which is not correct. From studies done, most are from peers. The software costs Retail Price: $169.95 - Our Price: $97.00
12/18/2008
GuardChild introduces a new "One-Stop" holistic Website designed to provide parents, guardians and educators with resources needed to protect children online from sexual predators, pornography, and educational resources to increase their knowledge about the dangers of unsupervised internet surfing by children.
Leonia (PRWEB) - GuardChild introduces the first One-Stop Website, www.GuardChild.com that provides parents with the fundamental resources for protecting children from sexual predators and other online dangers.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 64% of all teens admit to engaging in online activities they wouldn't want their parents to know about. This behavior puts children and their families at risk, which is why Michael Cafarelli has created GuardChild, a unique, holistic website that fuses the best parental control software and educational resources, enabling parents to minimize that risk.
"Real online security depends upon Protection, Education and Communication," says GuardChild president Michael Cafarelli. "GuardChild provides all three by offering child-monitoring and web-filtering software, a glossary of chat/text acronyms, a large database of child safety articles and websites, a searchable state-by-state sex offender registry, and an online community blog." Together, these services enable "Cyber Parenting" which encompasses understanding how technology affects one's family and using this knowledge to protect one's child when they are online. For example, a Cyber Parent sets guidelines for children's access and use of the internet, email, instant messaging, chat rooms, other online privileges and cell phones. This is only a basic aspect of Cyber Parenting which needs to be built upon in order to fully protect children.
- You can get a larger glossary of net lingo here.
"We are living in a Digital Age," Cafarelli says, "and if parents don't educate themselves and their children, then they will be vulnerable to a multitude of online dangers. It's that simple."
For more information about GuardChild.com, email Michael Cafarelli at administrator@guardchild.com or visit the GuardChild website: http://www.GuardChild.com.
About GuardChild.com:
GuardChild was founded by parents for parents. The president and his wife have four children and are well aware of the dangers of unsupervised internet access by children. Mr. Cafarelli has over twenty years of experience in working with parents and children through various non-profit organizations in New York City.
Contact:
Michael Cafarelli, President
GuardChild.com
201-944-5013
http://www.guardchild.com
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