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Surfing MySpace.com helps cops crack the case.As far as Jennifer Joffe was concerned, the party started the night of Feb. 23, when she let four friends raid the liquor cabinet of her mother's Boulder, Colo., mansion—and it ended when she stumbled up to bed.
How to Form a MySpace Watch
As parents grow concerned over what sorts of people their children meet in online like MySpace, some are looking for ways to police online social networks for known sex offenders. Most states, with the exceptions of Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, DC, post sex offender registries online. Concerned parents can become a MySpace member and search for other members who match names listed in the registries. Such services as myspaceWatch.com can help parents monitor their child's MySpace activity for as little as $6 a month, while other sites list profiles of known criminals who use social networking sites and blogs. The article provides links to help parents start their online surveillance.
Claire Miller, a 44-year- old publishing executive in New York, recently stripped her nameplate from the tenant directory at the entrance to her apartment building in the Kips Bay neighborhood, where she has lived for more than 11 years. She also asked the landlord to disconnect the buzzer and is in the process of changing her phone number. These are drastic measures for an otherwise outgoing person.
It took 10 minutes in a retail parking lot for Cory Michal to get someone's name and credit card number. The technical operations manager for Appleton-based Exceed Security Systems LLC merely used $300 worth of common technology to casually intercept a person's vital financial information as it was transmitted between a retailer and a credit card company.
Flash drives, iPods, camera phones -- you know what your employees carry in. But do you know what they carry out? Proliferating flash drives and other personal memory devices are causing corporate IT managers to rethink data security policies and enforcement. But the balance between corporate security and user convenience has never been more difficult to achieve, because ubiquitous thumb-size drives can hold gigabytes of corporate information.
Security threats are everywhere – spyware and adware installed inadvertently over the internet, viruses transmitted through email, keyloggers penetrating your firewall, malicious code broadcast over peer-to-peer networks.
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