How to Stay Safe Online: Adults Users Should Protect Their Personal and Financial Information From 'Phishing.'
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By Tulsa World, Okla.  May 28--Many older users may be leery about safety when using MySpace. That's understandable, as media reports about online predators often single out such social networking sites as prime vehicles for these criminals.
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Blog: A new study shows that online safety advice needs to go beyond "don't talk to strangers" to address the specific risky behaviors that make youth ages 10-17 vulnerable to online victimization.
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Although online shopping has its risks, your credit-card number and other personal information are just as likely to be stolen in a very low-tech way.
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Worried about people accessing your  private information whenever you use a public computer? There  is a way to protect yourself: Devices as small as a keychain  allow you to use any computer without leaving a trail of  evidence.
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By James Daley The internet has proved both a blessing and a curse when it comes to shopping around for the best financial products. While consumers now have instant access to more information than ever before, this has also made it much harder to find exactly what you're after.
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Several incidents highlight the dangers life online presents to preserving your privacy.
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Eager to get into the identity-theft business? Don't bother breaking into a government employee's house or staking out an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. A recent study shows that a simple shopping jaunt on eBay or in a local used-tech store will pay off in personal info over half the time.
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A whopping 70% of respondents say they&#39;ve been duped, and 15% admit to revealing personal information. By Thomas Claburn. Phishing could cost consumers $500 million this year, according to a new study conducted
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A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely.
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The relatively new world of online applications is grappling with security issues. Is Web security where it should be? And where should it be going?
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Science & environment: Creators of malware are no longer script kiddies after kudos - they're criminals after your cash. Wendy M Grossman asks if protection can keep pace with them.
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You may lock your doors and windows - and maybe even activate an alarm system to keep your home protected, but a new study indicates that most of us haven&#39;t taken the equivalent of those basic steps when it comes to protecting ourselves when we go online.
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Internet "phishing" scams are  becoming more difficult to detect as criminals develop new ways  to trick consumers into revealing passwords, bank account  numbers and other sensitive information, security experts say.
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Clever e-mail can fool you into giving your info to thieves. Find out how not to fall prey.
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By Marilyn Elias  Most parents don't believe in blind trust when it comes to making sure their children are using the Internet safely, a large national survey on media use suggested Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Home Internet users are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers, which found most consumers have no firewall protection, outdated antivirus software, and spyware programs secretly running on their computers.
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NEW YORK - People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.    If it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged...