I was interviewed recently by Diana, a blogger for sproutforparents.com, and she told me about her not so pleasant experience using a search engine with her child. Let’s just say her search for volcanoes did not return the right kind of eruptions. Yeah…I feel her pain. I have been there when I wanted [...]

I’ll admit it. I am addicted to Farmville on Facebook! I also play (somewhat addicted) Scrabble with my son and old friends on Facebook. If you are a “friend” of mine on the social networking site, you probably already know this about me because I always post the lost pink cow or [...]

Hi, my name is Moira Cronin and as a parent concerned about the cyber-safety of my kids, I recently decided to learn as much as I can about keeping my kids safe online. I chose to become McAfee’s Cybermum, and have made it my mission to find out the latest stories, facts and news when [...]

On All Hallows Eve, spooky tricks and treats are abound. You will see all sorts of ghouls (princesses too!). But watch out for more than just ghosts and goblins this Halloween. If you live in Rio, New York City or Toronto, there’s a high chance you have zombies in your neighborhood. Zombie computers that [...]

There was a study done by the Berkman Center that said our kids are more likely to be hit by a car than be abducted by an online predator. The authors also reminded us that people worry about the safety of Halloween candy even though there has never been a documented case of candy [...]

It’s true. I, Tracy Mooney, was just the subject of a social engineering scheme. It’s going around like the flu! I’m curious if anyone else has been hit.
Ever clicked on a TinyURL? Well, I did, and as a result, it sent me to a fake site and then spammed all of my followers on Twitter. [...]

Five years ago a family member bought my kids a game called City of Heroes for Christmas. Within a week, we bought a new computer because the PC we had was unable to run… said the game. (Merry Christmas, right?)
At the time I was very frustrated. I really had no idea why this [...]

For those of you who don’t have kids, the back to school sales may mean great deals on new computers. I just scored a great netbook at a fantastic price. I was so psyched! As I was setting it up, I remembered that it has been a while since I had to do [...]

It is September and the kids are all heading back to school! Wow, another summer over already!
Last year at this time, I met the director of a pre-school who told me she was terrified of the computer and therefore never let her kids on it unless she was sitting with them. [...]

I have been doing the rounds of TV shows in North America over the past couple days. Everyone from Good Morning America to CNN International to CTV wants to hear about this “groundbreaking” case of a model who was bashed online. The case has been incorrectly described as the “first time a victim of cyberbashing [...]