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It is important for everyone to keep up to date on security matters to keep your online accounts secure. Here is a video by Facebook Security team to keep your account and information secure on Facebook.

People logged into many sites regularly, they had some tough time with their passwords to manage. Here is a simple way to manage passwords easily. The Mozilla Security team gave some suggestions on how one can choose strong, easy to remember and different passwords for different websites.

Governament, Industry and Non-profit Organizations launched first ever Cyber Safety Campaign during National Cyber Security Awareness Month( October ) called Stop. Think. Connect. a simple message   to public and it promotes simple steps to increase the safety and security online.

Google Security Team on one of its blog post  tells that, listen to the all warnings on search results and on browsers even the source is trusted one. Because for surely those trusted sites will be under attack. The Security team is confident about the warnings given by scanners. here is the post published on Online Security Blog This week in particular, a lot of web users have become vulnerable. A number of live public exploits were attacking the latest versions of some very popular browser plug-ins. Our automated detection systems encounter these attacks every day, e.g. exploits against PDF (CVE-2010-2883), Quicktime (CVE-2010-1818) and Flash (CVE-2010-2884). We found it interesting that we discovered the PDF exploit on the same page as a more “traditional” fake anti-virus page, in which users are prompted to install an executable file. So, even if you run into a fake anti-virus page and ignore it, we suggest you run a thorough anti-virus scan on your machine. We and others have ...

Google launches Family Safety Center   for families to browse the web safely and securely. Here in the Safety Center they provide Google safety tools which will protect us while browsing. In the Google  Family Safety Center  you can learn how to use Safety tools. Tips and advice about how to stay safe online from partners. Working with Organisations to protect young people. It teaches you Internet Safety, how to be secure and how to behave in the web. The main thing in this Safety Center is Video tips from Google parents . Watch more safety videos on Youtube channel

Microsoft has released several free tools and resources to help individuals and their families increase their safety and privacy online. Here are a few of those tools and resources: Free Internet safety calendar .   Download a free Internet Explorer add-on that offers online safety tips for you and your family. Free online safety ebook .  Download this free book to help teenagers navigate the Internet more safely. You can download the whole book or selected chapters. Research on parents and social networking safety .   Research commissioned by Microsoft shows that parents are very engaged with their children's social networking activities but might not be taking advantage of available tools that can help them.