Worried about your kids’ webcam use? You have every right to be
Laptops, smartphones and tablets – you can hardly find a connected device without a camera these days. Thanks to technological advances…
Highlights of the month
Password DOs and DON’Ts for you and your kids
With the amount of online accounts to manage today, securing your online presence with strong passwords can seem like an overwhelming t…
Can you spot a hoax in the flood of news? Can your children?
Gone are the days of chain letters! Back then, all victims of fabricated falsehoods had to lose was time and possibly a few bucks for s…
Geolocation and social media: Do you know the risks?
Geolocation: Are your kids telling the whole world where they are? “Checking in“ to one‘s current physical location using…
Downloading
On the surface, the internet seems to offer anything and everything you might need – on demand and for free. Children and teens especia…
Posting Pics of Your kid on Facebook? A Few Tips
Cross your heart, how many pictures of your offspring have you shared by the time he/she turned five? In the era of social networks, th…
How to protect kids from online predators?
The Internet is a vast source of information for all of us, and naturally some people use that information for good, and some for ill…
Keep an eye on your little gamers. The online dangers you might not know of
Is your kid sitting in front of the computer all day, fully absorbed by some first-person shooter or other popular game? You should kno…
Worried about your kids’ webcam use? You have every right to be
Laptops, smartphones and tablets – you can hardly find a connected device without a camera these days. Thanks to technological advances, it now doesn’t matter if your friend lives down…
First selfie steps? Teach your child this
Think that selfies are something new? Think again. Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt and Vincent van Gogh are just some of the renowned painters who ’took’ their self-portraits hundreds of y…
Password DOs and DON’Ts for you and your kids
With the amount of online accounts to manage today, securing your online presence with strong passwords can seem like an overwhelming task – even without thinking of another handful of…
Can you spot a hoax in the flood of news? Can your children?
Gone are the days of chain letters! Back then, all victims of fabricated falsehoods had to lose was time and possibly a few bucks for stamps. Compared to these old-school hoaxes, there…
Geolocation and social media: Do you know the risks?
Geolocation: Are your kids telling the whole world where they are? “Checking in“ to one‘s current physical location using geolocation services and sharing it with a photo…
Downloading
On the surface, the internet seems to offer anything and everything you might need – on demand and for free. Children and teens especially enjoy the benefits of being able to download a…
Your kids building air castles? Popular games and their risks
Have you talked to your kids these days? I bet all they talk about is some game out there, mentioning cheats, mods or blocks leaving you clueless of what that actually is. Take for i…
Sweetie Identifies 1000 Offenders; About to Get a Younger Sister
According to UN and FBI estimates, at any given moment, there are 750.000 men online who browse child pornography. If that number gives you as a parent the shivers, you should meet Swee…
Kids on the move: how children use mobile Internet
What’s your favorite online activity? Scrolling through social networks, instant messaging your friends or watching videos? Believe it or not, your preferences mirror those of many of t…
Four Internet-savvy countries agree: Kids go digital too early
Nowadays, the internet and technology have become so important for business, travel and many other everyday tasks that they practically surround us all the time. This is true for the yo…
Online predator busted after being intercepted by tech-savvy mom
Being a tech-savvy parent is one way to make your child’s online experience secure. In what was an almost textbook example of online grooming that surfaced only a few days ago in Coloni…
Do you know the main risks online for kids? And do your kids?
The main concern of all parents is to keep their children safe. But as technology proliferates it can be hard to identify where the potential risks lurk on the Internet. Statistics from…
Do you know what your kids are doing online? Some red flags to look out for…
Today, kids live in two interconnected worlds – the online and the offline. We at ESET are parents too, so we know how tricky this can make bringing up children. It’s always been diffic…
Useful guides
Parent’s Guide for Child Protection on the Internet
Social Networks Parental Guide
Help is available!
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