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EBay has asked users to change their passwords following a cyber attack that compromised one of its databases.

As our identities become more entrenched on the web, a slew of apps want us to return to an earlier era of anonymity on the internet.

Michael Gove’s overhaul of the curriculum puts coding at the heart of education, combining computer science with IT and digital literacy

Teachers are being increasingly adversely affected by the abuse of social media and email, a survey by the NASUWT

Q&A with Cybersmile’s Scott Freeman

Most families have implemented boundaries and rules that their kids and teens have to follow when it comes to their gadgets. Hopefully, parents today understand that digital citizenship is as important to their children as potty training was to them as toddlers.

A survey by a Keighley e-learning company has revealed nearly two-thirds of primary school teachers don’t know how to stop children using social networking sites.

Schoolchildren in London will be recruited into the largest ever study to investigate the impact of mobile phone use on teenagers’ developing brains.

Over the last few months quite a few new messaging apps have been released giving young people different spaces to share secrets anonymously online

Google has received fresh takedown requests after a European court ruled that an individual could force it to remove "irrelevant and outdated" search results, the BBC has learned.

How females are just as likely to be abused by their own sex as by men

A 17-year-old girl who admitted making a "grossly offensive" comment on Facebook after a boy's sudden death in Swansea has been cautioned by police.

A ruling forcing Google to remove search results has been described as "astonishing" by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

A Twitter troll who posted abusive messages about the fatal stabbing of teacher Ann Maguire has been jailed for eight weeks.

Carphone Warehouse boss warns against school roll-out

The UK’s four biggest internet service providers (ISPs) - Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk and BT - have combined forces to launch a campaign designed to promote awareness of internet safety.

On Tuesday, the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union set a major precedent over what is referred to as the "right to be forgotten".

Childnet, partners in the UK Safer Internet Centre, have launched a discussion forum to invite educators to share their experiences about autism and online safety, which will feed into a new toolkit for educators.

The National Centre for Cyberstalking Research is trying to find out more about this very modern crime - its prevalence, the motivation of those who perpetrate it and how best to tackle it.

Cyber bullying of children via social media sites is now a bigger problem than face-to-face harassment, say psychologists.