Pandora’s Blog

The day has finally arrived and history will be made today. We will elect either the oldest President ever and first female Vice President, or the first African American President soon.
A smart person once told me there are two things you NEVER talk about with strangers: religion and politics. However, I feel compelled to be [...]

Child Internet safety is huge these days, and rightly so. But there are a lot of folks that claim the issue is being over-hyped and overblown with fear mongering. I don’t understand how that can be true. The bottom line is that the ‘chip’ on the gambling table is your child’s safety and life. Why [...]

A note to all our friends on the Internet,
In the past couple of months we have fielded calls, emails and support inquiries – with increasing frequency – for an antivirus program that is purported to belong to INNOVAGEST SL and/or Pandora Software, LLC. Please be aware that our company, Pandora Corp., makers of PC Pandora [...]

So, as we wind down at the end of Cyber Security Awareness Month, I come across another company’s press release, which states that this last final week of CSAM is Stop Internet Predators Week. Conveniently, this was named by the Stop Internet Predators organization. Heh… still, why the heck not play along?
There are many threats [...]

I don’t know what it is lately… I guess the cops are slow. Certainly there can’t be a shortage of creeps on the Internet… maybe they just got wiser or better at evading cops. Either way, it boils down to the fact that I have only one story to share this week.
A 49-year-old man was [...]

Here’s an interesting one. An Ofsted report (from the UK) has found that children actually want more protection when they go online.
Nearly half (45%) think adults should supervise young people when using the web, while around a quarter (24%) believe children should be taught basic online safety. Almost two thirds (61%) asked for pornographic website [...]

That should read as “is equal to”…
Jason Miller at SecurityProNews.com wrote an interesting piece on cyber security as perceived by “mom.” Makes for some good Friday reading.
Basically, moms are putting Internet safety up on the list of important issues, up there with the equivalent of drinking and driving. This is a good thing.
The article below [...]

I came across a couple very interesting stories. They use Facebook as the subject here, but each story can be applied to the broad social network world.
The first story takes a look at the art of “creeping.” This is basically randomly viewing people’s profiles on social networks without being on their friends list. You may [...]

Wow. My 20th post. My 20th round-up of scum and villainy tat troll the Internet looking to have sex with underage kids. That means that for at least 20 weeks there have been enough stories to tell of arrests. Do you really think predators aren’t a problem? I should go back and count, but I [...]

Maybe this is the way to go about it… a Brigham Young University student, Justin Bergener, created SchoolTipline.com, which lets students anonymously report incidents of cyberbullying, as well as information about thefts, drugs and harassment.
Bergener said he hopes students who might otherwise be too scared or shy to speak up will be willing to post [...]