Please listen to this awesome interview with Ken Shallcross Today’s CHWR Guest!

Ken joined Dave and Bill live today to talk about the brand new updates for PC Pandora 7.0

Ken also shared some ideas and some suggestions for parents to be on the lookout while kids are surfing during the holidays. Get more info on PC Pandora 7.0 computer monitoring software.

Learn IT, DO IT, Teach IT, Share IT, BE IT

Your CyberHood Watch Partner

Bill Wardell

 
Radio Security Journalist

© 2006 – 2011 CyberHood Watch® Blog

[One Of The Best Parenting Security Tools... Ever!]

Go to The CyberHood Watch on iTunes to listen to over 350 world-wide professionals & experts helping parents everywhere, by Keeping Our Children Safe online, click below to learn how-to protect yourself!!!

In just 2 years we have converted and updated all our content and all of the CHW Network and information portals here at our new home! We have just passed a very big milestone 500 Pages and Posts entries, which means there is literally 10′s of thousands pages of content contained here on The CyberHood Watch Blog!!!

Very cool, Dave and I have worked basically every day over the past 4 years together since the summer of 2007 when we began our partnership and this exciting journey!!!

Most of you have seen that we do a weekly radio show Tuesday – Thursday’s every week for the past 3 3/4 years… but maybe what you might know is we’ve created a radio show library archived with 400 hours of interviews with the top security industry leaders from around the world… check out the CHWR Alumni page. or get those CHWR shows downloaded onto your iPod here: CHW on iTunes

Here is my TOP 12 Favorite posts and/or pages, out of the Five Hundred or so… on The CyberHood Watch Blog!!!

a.  Donna Rice Hughes Meet The CHW Partners Dave and Bill
b.  The CHW Mission…Setting Your Digital True North
c.  talk is cheap… real Communication is Priceless!
d.  Dave & Bill’s Portfolio
e.  Human Trafficking Resources
f.  Pandora Helps Find Daughter Who Had Run Away With a Boy…
g.  WARNING!!! Chat Roulette…Parents Take Heed! Peeping Tom’s!
h.  Get Character Or Become One – John Nelson, The Bookstore Bandit
i.  There are Enemies Among US and They’re Trying To Steal Your Freedom
j.  Like a GOOD Neighbor, The Cyber ‘HOOD’ Watch Is There!!
k.  To Facebook Or Not To Facebook?
l.  The Daddy Behind The DaddyTeller.com and DaddyTeller Book!

Featured…  Human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery Americas Prostituted Children by Julian Sher Author Discusses His Book “Somebody’s Daughter”

Thanks everyone for your continued support, and please take a moment to comment below, and tell us which post is your favorite!!

Learn IT, DO IT, Teach IT, Share IT, BE IT

Your CyberHood Watch Partner

Bill Wardell

 
Radio Security Journalist

© 2006 – 2011 CyberHood Watch

ABC Family Premier Movie..."Cyberbully"

Sunday, July 17 2011, the ABC Family will premiere the original movie, “Cyberbullying”. The CyberHood Watch^® partners, Dave & Bill, will be joining Pandora Corp., makers of PC Pandora computer monitoring software, on Pandora Corp.’s live chat that will coincide with ABC’s Family premier movie, “Cyberbullying”.

The CyberHood Watch^® partners, Dave & Bill, urge parents to tune in to the program.

After years of research and more than three-hundred interviews with industry leaders’ worldwide, one of the common denominators referenced repeatedly by our guests on CHWradio is “Communication & Awareness”. It is one of the corner stones of the CyberHood Watch^® community.

ABC’s Family movie “Cyberbullying” is a great opportunity for parents to open up a dialogue with his or her child. Not taking advantage of this opportunity is one of the other common threads we have recognized throughout the interviews with industry worldwide perpetuates these problems …Complacency and apathy.

Too often, we are or should be concerned with the viewing habits of our tweens and teens. However, ABC’s Family movie, “Cyberbullying” is one of those movies that give parents a chance to bridge the digital divide and allow for a teaching moment with his or her child.

Recommended by The CyberHood Watch Partners, Dave & Bill

Pandora Corp., has seized the moment and recognized a great opportunity to apply technology in a positive light and communicate further the need to help stop cyberbullying by making it interactive through a live chat.

Sadly, and unfortunately as the chat site became available for everyone to share his or her personal input and try to make a difference a small group of hackers hit the site, and made it unbearable for others to share their honest and personal feelings about the show, “Cyberbully”.

I spoke with Ken, Director of Media and Public Relations, from Pandora Corp, after the event who shared his disappointment in what happened. It is sad that a great opportunity for the community to interact with one another while furthering communication and raising awareness about cyberbullying and the tragedies it causes in the lives of others was missed because of a few misguided individuals who lack respect for others and what they work diligently to accomplish.

Anyone who was on the chat, for a brief moment, had some insight as to how overwhelming and frustrating it would be for someone to be under such constant bombardment of trash talking. There was no way to comment or come up for air.

After the show, I read several reviews and comments of those who missed the intent of the show. Seems the attention was to criticize the merits of the actors and the outcome of the show; however, the intent was to raise awareness of the problem cyberbullying and the fact people get hurt. Hurt enough that some kids believe their only escape is suicide.

It was an ABC Family movie, and that should provide some insight as to the nature of the audience…it’s a movie. Criticize the merits of the movie all you want; however, it did draw attention to Cyberbullying, and that it is more a realty for your children than you think.  It is not the same “bully” our “digital immigrants” grew up knowing and/or experiencing.

The CyberHood Watch Partners Support - Stop Cyberbullying

The later statement in no way is to diminish the pain and torment of those who were bullied without the use of today’s technology. Jodee Blanco, Author of “Please Stop Laughing at Us” will bring you inside the life of someone bullied. Jodee was a guest of the CyberHood Watch^® partners, Dave & Bill, on CHWradio, who shared valuable insight for everyone, both victims and bullies alike. There is no denying the advancement’s of technology and its integration into our lives…”digital lives”, has taken bullying to a whole new level of abuse.

The sooner we empower the digital native and the digital immigrant how to live a safe and secure digital life the better chance they have as the starfish tossed back into the ocean.

As the grandfather picked up another starfish and tossed it back into the ocean, the grandson uttered why do you that, and who cares. “The starfish cares”, replied the grandfather. Every child deserves a trusted adult to rely on.

Your CyberHood Watch Partner,

david c ballard

Radio Security Journalist

Recommended by The CyberHood Watch®

Sunday, July 17 2011, the ABC Family will premier the original movie, “Cyberbullying”. The CyberHood Watch^® partners, Dave & Bill, will be joining Pandora Corp., makers of PC Pandora computer monitoring software, on Pandora Corp.’s live chat that will coincide with ABC’s Family premier movie, “Cyberbullying”.

The CyberHood Watch^® partners, urge parents to tune in to the program.

After years of research and more than three-hundred interviews with industry leaders’ worldwide, one of the common denominators referenced repeatedly by our guests on CHWradio is “Communication & Awareness”. It is one of the corner stones of the CyberHood Watch^® community.

"Cyberbullying" The New ABC Family Movie | Join Pandora Corp Live Chat...CHW Will be There.

ABC’s Family movie “Cyberbullying” is a great opportunity for parents to open up a dialogue with his or her child. Not taking advantage of this opportunity is one of the other common threads we have recognized throughout the interviews that perpetuates these problems …Complacency and apathy.

Too often, we are or should be concerned with the viewing habits of our tweens and teens. However, ABC’s Family movie, “Cyberbullying” is one of those movies that give parents a chance to bridge the digital divide and allow for a teaching moment with his or her child.

Pandora Corp., has seized the moment and recognized a great opportunity to apply technology in a positive light and communicate further the need to help stop cyberbullying by making it interactive through a live chat.

Be sure to join all of us Sunday, July 17, 2011 here:

Your CyberHood Watch Partner,

david c ballard

Radio Security Journalist

Robert Siciliano Is In The Hood Talking With Dave & Bill On CHWradio

To paraphrase Robert Siciliano,  today’s guest on The CyberHood Watch partners, Dave & Bill’s, CHWradio show, stated…It is a flawed system. We have built it on paper, plastic, embossed certificates, and unfortunately, these documents are easily accessible for duplication. With the right piece of illegally obtained or counterfeited paper in hand, you can duplicate an identity.

Introduced in the late 1930’s was the launch of  Social Security Numbers and the onset of what Robert coins as “The Functionality Creep”. What began as an identifier for Social Security Benefits; Social Security Numbers became the magnet for all identifiers in multiple industries (Bankers – Financial Institutions – Credit Agencies – Law Enforcement etc.) to track our identities.

These nine numbers now exist within enormous and numerous databases…We are a data-base-society. The past frequency and use of Social Security Numbers transacted in everyday life has been farmed throughout a multitude of databases. That single identifier once compromised is the key to the flawed system housing your identity, which provides the gateway to criminal activity in your good name. Once someone presents himself or herself as you and another individual believes it is you…The system is broke at that moment.

The Internet and its propensity for misuse can also find its way into other debated issues like RFID, biometric technologies, nanotechnologies, digital technologies if not mindful of their applications, we may open several new Pandora security threat boxes.

Robert discusses the smart card, which may resemble a mini version of “functionality creep”. The smart card is becoming more and more sophisticated. Many nations are moving towards adopting the use of the smart card as an identifier.

A Unique Identifier & Authenticator For Every Head...

Robert raises a great question addressing personal ownership of our digital security. We make it very, very easy for somebody to get credit over the phone, online, through the mail, or remotely. According to Robert, it is much easier to obtain credit living in the United States than the many nations Robert mentions in our interview.

Sidebar:

Everyone once in awhile imagine ownership of the Internet, and every bit of data. You are the “Oz” with total anonymity behind the cyber curtain. Which leads me to a question I have asked previous guests on CHWradio, “Whose Internet is it anyway”? Click, and navigate over to the CyberHood Watch Community where we listen. In the CHW Community, we provide communication, awareness, and solutions for living in a digital world…Enjoy the Internet safely.

The United States offers the least path of resistance for criminals whose motives are to arrive in the States, and apply for credit or with the intent to compromise the databases.

We posed a question to Robert how would he address someone’s concern feeling enough is enough, and not wanting to give up any more personal information to be stored in the smart card.

“We have privacy issues revolving around identifying who’s who”, said Robert. It seems with the speculation of the evolution of technology, and a digital society there will be opposing sentiments from different schools of thought. Unfortunately, the issue is becoming more about security than individual privacy. Until we understand the insecurity of the existing systems, will you begin to recognize the scope of losses we are occurring?

“I have been doing my best to get the public to make a shift in their understanding of the issues so that they will ultimately, you know, protect their identity… and ultimately succumb to being effectively identified in a way that, you know, the bad guy just can’t pose as you ” said Robert Siciliano.

Robert Siciliano, shared a quote from Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security, which reads, “I am going to submit to you, that in the 21^st Century, the most important asset that we have to protect as individuals and as part of our nation is the control of our identity. Who we are, how we identify ourselves, whether other people are permitted to masquerade and pretend to be us, and thereby damage our livelihood, damage our assets, damage our reputation, and damage the standing in our community.”

If you have had a chance to listen to Robert, you know he is a pipeline of information. You are welcome to stop by and download a personal copy of the show for future listening or any other of our guests.

david c ballard (CIISA)

Radio Security Journalist

The CyberHood Watch Week In Review with Digital Dave and MegaByte Bill…

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Those of you who joined us today for the CHW live radio show with Ken Shallcross from PC Pandora, were blessed to hear an amazing story of what today’s parents are facing with the new internet we call the (CyberHood)… read and listen below!

Ken made his 4th appearance on our show! After more than a year of development, Pandora Corp. has just released the newest version of their computer monitoring software, PC Pandora 6.0. In addition to the upgraded software, PC Pandora LIVE! is launched. A web-based feature, the LIVE! service will let you check the data recorded from your home computer from anywhere you can access the Internet – including your iPhone!

The start of 2010 also brought something totally new from the company. Pandora Corp. has released The Office Software (theOS), a network-based monitoring and productivity tool designed to help small businesses and department managers eliminate cyberslacking and protect corporate assets. Listen to the show to hear how exciting all this new technology is, and how it’s helping business owners as well as parents everywhere.

Social Networking… is such a integral part of modern life today… something as simple as getting kicked off an airplane can turn into a nation-wide conservation in matter of a few minutes, or an international debate in a few hours!!! case in point, in a matter of a few hours this story was global!

The SLC version

Dana, a father who used PC Pandora to find his daughter who had run away with an 18-year-old boy she met on the Internet.

PC Pandora… has graciously setup a special link for all parents who listen to “CHW” and all our blog followers, it’s a $10:00 off the normal sale price discount… Thanks to Ken and his team for helping our CyberHood Watch friends & family!  Special CHW discount

What a great show, one of the best we have ever done!!

Thank you Ken and Dana for taking time out of your day to share with Dave and I, and especially for sharing with the CyberHood Watch audience this wonderful story, not every story can have a happy ending but I believe with the PC Pandora software a lot more of these types of stories could and will have a happy ending, and reunite families everywhere… that is our hope and prayer.

This is such a powerful story that others need to read it and use it to protect their own families and children… please share this with your loved ones

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Predators are real… and they do strike someone, someplace, somewhere, every single day, 24 hours a day… thousands of cases daily, around the world!

WE hope this message reaches those parents just like Dana… who are searching for solutions, that they’ll find PC Pandora… before it is to late!

Your CyberHood Watch Partner

Bill Wardell

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It’s ironic how Bill and my wife Christi both had prior knowledge of our guest, Donna Rice Hughes, President and CEO of Enough is Enough. In the

Donna Rice Hughes

beginning while becoming an authority for online safety, Bill would reference Donna’s website as a source to quote. Christi on the other hand met Donna and briefly talked to her many years ago when Christi was a flight attendant and Donna was a passenger on the plane. Today was my turn to share an hour with Donna Rice Hughes as our guest on CHWradio.com. It was a great day in The CyberHood Watch neighborhood.

As Donna pointed out, the Internet is a neutral technology, but it is so dynamic a platform with exponential growth for both good and evil that as responsible cybercitizens we cannot rest on our laurels. Too often, we refer to the Internet as the Wild-Wild-West, but for all those who are reading this…You aien’t seen nothing yet. What we have experienced is only a tea party in comparison with the technologies that are fast approaching.

Beginning in early 2009, The CyberHood Watch partners, Dave and Bill, assisted PC Pandora in developing and implementing a Security Symposium that could be shared with the community to educate parents, educators, and family members on Internet safety. Then Bill and I recently released our new eBook, “Think It Won’t Happen To You”, gathered from two years of research and over a hundred interviews with authorities from around the world, like Donna Rice Hughes, about the top issues facing all of us.

For a very brief moment, it was a bittersweet moment for Dave & Bill researching what Enough is Enough had accomplished. However, it is ultimately about getting out the message about values and online safety and the CyberHood Watch partners will always opt-in to accomplish that goal.  Well, “Enough is Enough” is here to make a valuable contribution that will empower more children, families, educators, and concerned digital citizens than ever before and do it in a period necessary to effect important change in the safety of our digital children.

CHWradio

Our digital citizens are fortunate to have individuals like Donna Rice Hughes, who has spent her life passion to facilitate a safer and healthier Internet for everyone and in particular the “Age of Innocence”.

A three-pronged strategy initially adopted back in 1992 involving the public (parents and end users) – the technology industry (develop protective technologies & family friendly policies) – and law enforcement (legal, government, public policy & enforcement) still holds true today.

Following this three-pronged approach with nine years of research, and five years of development, Enough is Enough has developed the ultimate program called, “Internet Safety 101”. The program is designed to empower parents, educators, and other caring adults to help protect their children from the dark side of the Internet. Each prong is an action working in harmony to empower the individual, which in turn will provide for a safe and healthy Internet for our children.

It is not an easy task when the laws, which are in place and apply to television to protect underage children from adult content, are not available to protect children online as well. Moreover, it is made evident from the fact that the greatest percentages of viewers of pornography are teens. There is a good reason for that when you consider pornography is a twelve billion dollar industry and the deceptive practices used to entrap children are permitted. Talk about grooming techniques practiced by predators and pedophiles, the tactics used by the pornography industry to entice and corrupt children parallel closely to deviant practices.

Be assured that pornography is addictive and science has shown changes in the brain function that actually takes away free agency to make the chose to overcome the addiction. Moreover, if you think for a moment the pornography industry is not aware of this and leverages the behavior you are jeopardizing your child’s age of innocence. Make sure to watch the videos that are provided on Donna Rice Hughes’s site, Enough is Enough.

The days of the onetime sex-talk with your child no longer applies because we live in a sex-saturated society and it is important to have recurring sex-talks appropriate at different stages of our child’s life. This will allow our children a frame of references so they know what they will accept, which will help them identify when confronted with the pornographic lie that permeates our society.

Donna pointed out that the Internet operates on a completely different paradigm. She went on to explain how television passes the law muster even though we may not agree to the level of appropriate content, but it follows the law. You have the right to opt-out of regular channel television, subscribe to an adult channel, and bring it in to your sphere of watching.

However, with the Internet, everything is opposite, anything goes, and everything goes. If you do not want the adult content, you then have to take steps to lock out that content access with filters or monitoring software. This puts an extraordinary burden on parents to manage the unwanted information pouring in.

Here is a tip from Donna, look for the preference button on your Google search engine and set your preference filter appropriately, which now comes with a password protected feature for parents. As Donna said, competition among corporate leaders can be a good thing, especially with these filter settings.

Parents, educators, and responsible cybercitizens who will implement the “Rules n Tools” of the “Internet Safety 101” program (funded by the DOJ), provided by Donna Rice Hughes and Enough is Enough, will effect a positive change in the life of a child’s Age of Innocence, allowing for a safe and healthy Internet experience. It is hard to be a parent and it is harder to be a cyber parent, but corporate America has made it easier by placing all the “rules n tools” needed, at your disposal to know what to do at your own pace.

Parent Notification Of Kids Online Activities

Monitoring steps up the accountability of your child and is a tool used as a parental control along with filtering to verify and ultimately establish trust. A good free alternative to monitoring is to check your computers history. However, good monitoring software is like a TiVo, which captures all your child’s online activities and can deliver real time notifications of any breeches in your child’s behavior.

We all agreed there are some wonderful applications of technology as well as amazing technologies that will simply be jaw-dropping applications like the “Sixth Sense”.

david c ballard