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Family
Cyber Alert Featured in the Editorial Article
Sewickley, PA-7/16/2007 –
Awarding
winning product, Family Cyber Alert, was
recently featured in the editor’s article “Parental concern
growing about MySpace, Facebook ” published by Sentinel
& Enterprise....
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Recent Carnegie Mellon University’s Survey Reveals Parents Want Tool to Monitor Children’s Internet Activity
Sewickley, PA - 4/18/2007 - InfoWorks
Technology, a leading innovator of online security and privacy protection solutions for home and enterprise customers, announces that a recent survey reaffirms from parents the need for its popular online monitoring software,
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Family
Cyber Alert Receives Highest Rating for PC Monitor Software
Sewickley, PA - 3/21/2007 - InfoWorks Technology, a leading innovator of online security and privacy protection solutions for home and enterprise customers, announced today that Family Cyber Alert has received the highest 5-star rating in the monitoring software category, from editors of Download.com and CNET.
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Amazon.com and Target.com Distribute InfoWorks Technology Products
Sewickley, PA - 10/10/2006 - InfoWorks
Technology, leading innovator of online security and privacy protection solutions for home and enterprise customers, is pleased to announce that its
Family Cyber Alert, a PC/Internet activity monitoring solution, is now available at Amazon.com and Target.com. In partnership with Enteractive Distribution Company, InfoWorks Technology has been distributing Family Cyber Alert through major US software retailers, including CompUSA, Staples, Office Depot, Micro Center, Fry’s, and J&R Music and Computer World.
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Family Cyber Alert to be Made Available through Major Retail Outlets
Sewickley, PA - 6/9/2006 - InfoWorks
Technology, leading innovator of online security and privacy protection solutions, today announced that it is making its
Family Cyber Alert, a PC/Internet activity monitoring solution, available in major retail outlets. In partnership with Enteractive Distribution Company, InfoWorks’ Family Cyber Alert will be available in Office Depot, Staples, and CompUSA stores beginning this
July
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Family
Cyber Alert Monitoring Capabilities Enhanced to Address Growing Online Safety Concerns
Sewickley, PA -
2/23/2006 - InfoWorks Technology today announced the release of a new version (v. 1.5) of its
Family Cyber Alert online monitoring solution, enabling parents to even more thoroughly address safety concerns relative to children’s Internet activities.
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InfoWorks Technology Extends Reach of PC Security & Privacy
Product Suite with the Addition of Family Cyber Alert Internet
Activity Monitor
Sewickley,
PA - 9/11/2005 - InfoWorks
Technology today announced the introduction of
its Family Cyber Alert online
monitoring solution to address both safety and privacy concerns
relative to children’s Internet activities.
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InfoWorks Technology Adds RegDoctor PC Registry Repair Solution to Existing Suite of PC Security & Privacy
Products
Sewickley, PA - 3/9/2005 -
InfoWorks
Technology, a leading innovator
of online security & privacy protection software,
today announced the introduction of its
RegDoctor solution to fix windows
registry problems and thereby improve PC system
performance.
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InfoWorks
Technology to partner with PatchLink for Comprehensive
Enterprise Security Management Solution
Sewickley, PA - 1/18/2005
- InfoWorks
Technology, a leading innovator of
online security & privacy protection software,today
announced that it has reached an agreement with PatchLink
Corporation to incorporate its award winning SpyRemover
software into PatchLink’s
Anti-Spyware Integration Module.
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State
Government Agency to Implement Anti-Spyware Solution from
InfoWorks Technology
Sewickley, PA - 11/8/2004 - InfoWorks
Technology, a leading
innovator of online security/privacy protection software, today
announced an agreement with Maryland State Archives to provide
their award winning anti-spyware software through a site
license. The state agency plans to utilize SpyRemover and other
PC security software provided by InfoWorks to strengthen it’s
online computing security and protect itself from spyware
infiltration on its extensive PC network.
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Important Facts
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An estimated fifty thousand sexual predators are online at any given time, very skilled at building
trust.1
Online sexual predators often use a “grooming’ process to gain the trust of a child, develop an online sexual or non-sexual relationship and ultimately leading to an in-person meeting. For more information on about how online predators operate and what some indicators are that a child may be being “groomed”,
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12% of children have learned that someone they were communicating with online was an adult pretending to be younger.2
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One out of five children age 10-17 have received unwanted sexual solicitations online.4
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Over 75% of these solicitations are not reported to their parents.4
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70% of reported unwanted sexual solicitations occurred on the youth’s home computer.4
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66% of reported sexual solicitations took place in chat rooms.6
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89% of teen unwanted online sexual solicitations received via chat room or instant messaging.6
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Online teens frequently communicate online with someone they have never met:
54% via instant messaging, 50% via e-mail,
45% via chat rooms.2
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27% of online teens reported talking about sex online with someone they have never met in person.2
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33% online teen girls report being asked about sexual topics while online.2
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30% of online teens have talked about meeting someone they have only met through the Internet.2
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40% of teen respondents said they'd "potentially" meet in person someone they'd "met online"; 12% said they'd get their parents' permission.3
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42% online teens (ages 13-18) said they have posted information about themselves (personal profile) on the Internet so others can see it and contact them. 2
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56% online teen girls reported having posted a personal profile on the Internet.2
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24% of teens claim that their parents are never around when they're online; 6% of parents said they were never around when their kids were online. 3
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71% of parents believe their children use the Net for research; 23% of teens say they research online.3
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3. NetAlert Online Safety Body
4. Youth Internet safety Survey – Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New
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5. Federal Bureau of Investigation – www.FBI.gov website
6. Pew Study – JAMA 2001
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What is “Grooming” and how do online sexual predators engage their victims?
One risk with chatrooms is that children may encounter a sexual predator who will try and develop an online relationship with the child, and perhaps later progress that relationship to a face-to-face meeting. This process of gaining the trust of a child, and isolating them from those who might protect them, is called ‘grooming’ and happens sometimes in offline and online situations of sexual abuse. Be on alert for changed behaviors that may be indicators of an online relationship warranting closer monitoring or investigation. A few examples are quickly turning monitor off, questionable gifts or money received, unexplained phone or credit card charges, new PC usage patterns, secretive or changed social behavior.
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Groomers often move between different cyber-technologies as they position themselves for abuse. For example, they might select a victim from a picture and profile they found online from a school website. They then might meet the victim in an open chat room and then go into a private chat room, where they start exchanging emails, messages, pictures and videos. After this, they might even send the victim a prepaid mobile phone that they can keep in secret to talk with the
groomer.
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Groomers might pretend to be younger than they actually are, or of a different gender, especially if they want their victims to think that they might be a good potential friend or girl/boy friend. However, many groomers do not lie about their real age or gender at all, and still manage to find victims!
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Groomers might have online profiles on dating sites and other sites where people meet each other (e.g. penpal sites, newsgroups, gaming sites etc). These might be real or fictitious. Photos of other people can be easily used in place of their own.
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Groomers can hunt for potential victims by looking through personal websites. Examples of such sites include: blogs (online diaries), pictures, and sites that ‘give out’ personal information and pictures about young people, and some school and sporting club websites.
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