I think it’s important to note that it’s not just financial institutions that need to have this sort of duty of care, if a company transacts between itself and another, then that transaction needs to be secure, even if it is just someone doing a questionnaire or paying a bill.

The problem is that the Internet is a safe haven for bullies because of the anonymity. There is not a more cowardly way to bully someone then from behind a curtain. But parents are the key. Parents need to get involved in helping solve the cyberbullying problem. If parents cared enough about their child being the bully or passing along the material as much as they care when their child is a victim, it would be a huge step forward. But then, of course, how do you know if your child is involved in cyberbullying? You need to monitor their Internet activity. Monitoring software like our PC Pandora records everything that happens on the PC. If your child is a victim, you will know; if they are a bully, you will know. Whatever the case may be with your child (victim or bully), you need to intervene. Check us out at http://pcpandora.com to see how you can be a part of the solution instead of a passive part of the problem.

Splunk takes security so serious that because silly passwords to the splunk.com website (not the product, not the user’s website, not the user’s data) were seen by *5* splunk internal employees, they recommended that user’s change their passwords. Again, this is just the user’s account for splunk.com which is just for downloading of the free splunk product, and they were only seen by 5 splunk internal employees. No hackers, no public access, no data loss.

There is NOTHING dangerous about this at all. It’s absurd that Splunk is being maligned for doing the right thing.