Megan's Law Mom OK With Nude MySpace Teen  Woman
says cops are hurting, not helping

The mother of the New Jersey girl whose death inspired Megan's Law is criticizing prosecutors who charge teenagers with child porn for distributing nude photos of themselves. Maureen Kanka said Thursday that the prosecutors are harming the children more than helping them.

Her comments came as authorities in Passaic County charged a 14-year-old girl with child pornography for posting nude photos of herself on MySpace.com.

If she is convicted, she would have to register with the state as a sex offender under Megan's Law. The laws generally require governments to alert neighbors of convicted sexual predators in their midst.

Kanka said the girl needs help, not legal trouble.

The girl's name has been kept confidential because she's a minor, but she allegedly posted 30 naked photos of herself on the social networking site.

Family wants tougher laws

Jessica Logan's nude cell-phone photo - meant for her boyfriend's eyes only - was sent to hundreds of teenagers last year in at least seven Greater Cincinnati high schools. The 18-year-old Sycamore High School senior was then bombarded with taunts: slut, porn queen, whore.

On July 3, Jessie hanged herself in her bedroom.

She was Albert and Cynthia Logan's only child. "My only baby that I will never be able to touch again," Cynthia Logan said through tears. "I will never have grandchildren. I will never be able to hand down my heirlooms.

I'm just devastated by these parents that allow their children to do and say anything they want." Now, Jessie's parents are attempting to launch a national campaign seeking laws to address "sexting" - the practice of forwarding and posting sexually explicit cell-phone photos online.

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U.S. Military Contractor Allegedly Hacked Teens to
Extort Nude Photos

An army contractor who worked on a U.S. military base in Iraq hacked into the computers of teenage girls to harass and extort sexually explicit images from them, authorities allege. Police say he and an accomplice targeted some 4,000 young women around the world, including six Florida teens -- one of whom he cyberstalked for years, beginning when she was 14, and showed up at her work place.

People are still the biggest security vulnerability

There is an old saying in the security world stating that people are the weakest link in the security chain. Here is a bit of data that reinforces this ancient security adage.

ESG Research recently conducted a project focused on confidential data security that will be published soon. However, here are some interesting advance results that support this venerable security dictum. ESG asked 308 North American and European security professionals from large organizations (i.e. 1,000 employees or more) a number of questions about data security risks, policies, and technology safeguards.