Your Daily Computer Security Tips

Do you know where your kids are going online, and what they are searching for? Security company Symantec does. It has kept an eye on Web page visits using its parental control software. YouTube was at the top of the list, followed by the search engines Google and Yahoo. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace came next.

However, also among the top ten searches were Sex and Porn. So monitor your teen’s wanderings and searches, or use parental control programs. If you have Vista, you already have what you need, built right in.

Here is a tidbit on another subject, namely a data breach. It seems that a 64-page list of names and Social Security Numbers was found, wait for it, under a jail mattress in a prisoner’s cell, in New Hampshire. I sure hope your info was not on that list!

The theft was found during a routine search. The list was supposed to be shredded at a warehouse across the street from the prison. How it ended up under that mattress is unknown.

What to do? As I have said many times, never give out your Social Security/Insurance Number to anyone unless absolutely necessary.