Report: Colorado School Shooter May Have Used MySpace.com to Research Victims; Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sam McQuade Calls for Increased Education to Combat Growing Cybercrime Threat.

AScribe Law News Service, September, 2006

Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sam McQuade, a cybercrime expert at Rochester Institute of Technology, comments on cyber victimization in the Colorado school shooting:

"This shooting is yet another example of children incurring unnecessary risks on themselves, their friends and their family members as a result of posting personal information onto social networking Web sites," says McQuade, author of the book "Understanding and Managing Cybercrime." "We have done a woeful job educating our children of the dangers that can emerge from such seemingly harmless activity. This must change."

McQuade, the graduate program coordinator at RIT's Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, is...

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