Enjoy some Christmas tunes courtesy of the McAfee All Access, which provides total security and safety across all your devices in one package. Also, don’t forget that Santa encourages you to make all your holiday gifts for the little ones safe and age-appropriate. If you’re giving a laptop, Macbook, iPad, or iPhone to a young [...]

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October is National Cyber Security Month, designed to increase awareness of cybersafety, including cybercrime and cybersecurity. In the “Mcafee Cares” program, McAfee volunteers educate students of all ages on cybersecurity and online safety, through speaking and classroom teaching. Last year, the program reached 3,200 kids at more than 200 schools located near 6 major North [...]

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In case you’re one of the 200-some odd people who haven’t heard, Scarlett Johansson has become the Internet’s latest cautionary tale. Johansson is alleging that someone hacked into her cell phone and stole the nude photos she took of herself (only two have surfaced on the web) and is enlisting the FBI to investigate who [...]

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In this digital age, being a long distance grandparent is a little easier. You have so many technological avenues to help you keep in touch with your grandchildren. Memories captured in photos and videos can now be instantly shared via email, Facebook, and Twitter. But no matter what your title—Grandma, Meemaw, Abuela, Papa, Papi or [...]

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  McAfee Offers Back-to-School Tips for Promoting Good Online Behavior  The explosion of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers has raised a new concern for parents as they pack their children off to school for the new year: potential disciplinary action by school administrators for cyberbullying, sexting and other online misbehavior taking place [...]

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As social media interactions provide more confounding problems in school, many districts are saying “buh-bye” to student-teacher networking. New Hanover County school district in North Carolina, along with at least two other districts, is enacting a new social media policy that prohibits students from being friends with their teachers and vice versa. The school board [...]

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This is a presentation I gave in June about McAfee’s approach to online safety. Put simply, we believe that the optimal environment for a child online can be achieved only through a combination of educational dialogue about the dangers posed to children online, as well as utilizing tools to ensure safe online behavior and a [...]

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This is a common question that I get a lot in interviews and it deserves a very clear answer: software can not keep your kids from getting bullied. Sadly, neither can the most attentive or protective parent. There is no foolproof way to protect our kids from being picked on, whether online or off. So [...]

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With all the news in Internet safety surrounding cyberbullying, we thought it would be helpful to publish some tips for parents that are struggling with the situation. Often, parents do no realize why cyberbullying is any different from what they went through in their own childhood, which can lead to an inadequate response or even [...]

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Susan M. Heim, parenting author and editor for “Chicken Soup for the Soul,” lists getting Safe Eyes on your computer as one of her online safety parenting tips. Read the article Thanks to Susan for the kind words and importing knowledge to other moms out there.

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