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Teaching empathy in an online world

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One school thinks it has an answer. Journey School in Aliso Viejo, a city in southern California, puts increased emphasis on teaching computer ethics. This task is made all the more interesting considering the school contains zero internet-ready devices for its sixth through eighth graders. "As the children mature we recognize that, as they get ...

C is for cookie – and costly – for Google

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission recently fined Google about $22.5 million for gathering more information from Safari users than it should have. Mac users received some startling news in February of this year. Then, Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer discovered Google bypassing privacy settings in the Safari internet browser. The company ...

Recent hacktivist activity generates political spam, targets pedophilia

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High-profile hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec may get a lot of media attention, but they're not the only groups who claim to be hacking for a cause. The English Twitter account for the Arabic news network Al Jazeera was recently compromised by hackers with a political agend...

Cybersecurity: Hot topic, officials can’t agree on legislation

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The issue of cybersecurity has become more and more pressing, due to highly sophisticated malware and other online threats. Programs such as "Find and Call," a malware app that made it into Apple's app store, have shown that cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated. The Find and Call app was a significant problem because it was the first p...

Some Skype messages went to the wrong recipients

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Of course, when making those free calls and messages via Skype, most assume that the communication is private and not seen by anyone else. However, it turns out this may not be true. The company confirmed on July 16 that a glitch was sending some Skype instant messages to the wrong person, so Skype might be yet another popular program that will ...