Earning Online from Panama

On 27th March the Department for Children, Schools and Families launched a report entitled “Safer Children in a Digital World” by Dr Tanya Byron, the well-known TV psychologist and mother of two. The report was commissioned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in September 2007. It puts forward a range of measures to help children and young people benefit the internet and video games, while protecting them from dangerous and inappropriate material.

Social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace have soared in popularity over the last few years. They allow users to keep in touch with their friends and make new friends, but they can also expose them to malware and other online danger. As usage of Web 2.0 applications, like blogs, wikis and social networking sites increases, they become more attractive to cyber criminals. Many users of these sites are relatively new to computers and can sometimes be fairly nave regarding online threats.