[July 01, 2011] EDITORIAL: Summer safety & LulzSec cyber-attacks Tweet Jun 28, 2011 (The Orlando Sentinel - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Summer safety The idle summer months pose the highest risk of dangers to children's safety. Top on the list of deadly threats: gun accidents and drowning. Year-round, firearm injuries account for the second leading cause of death for children, right behind injuries sustained in motor vehicle accidents. Vulnerable children often find access to a loaded weapon that was not properly secured, and officials say the idle summer months pose the most danger. Likewise, the Florida Department of Health notes more children under the age of 5 die by drowning in the Sunshine State than anywhere else in America. Take your child to swimming lessons from a young age, whether you have a pool or not, and be doubly vigilant about securing access to any water. Summer should be a time of fun. Education and vigilance can help you increase the odds it stays that way. Binary bandits LulzSec, the cyber-rogues who've hacked websites of major companies and intelligence agencies over the past two months for "laughs," has called it quits. The digital anarchists, who claim credit for cyber-attacks on Sony, Nintendo, PBS, the CIA, and the U.S. Senate, announced on Twitter they're disbanding. Why? They're bored. Good riddance. Not that LulzSec's going quietly into the night. It's released a file with its stolen data, and promises to leak stolen police files. But even as LulzSec caused havoc, it created critical awareness. Companies and governmental agencies operating in the Internet Age must take purposeful steps to reinforce their digital dikes. If for no other reason than the threat's far from over. LulzSec, in signing off, passed the mantle to Anonymous -- more hackers who may use cyber-anarchy to gain notoriety. To see more of The Orlando Sentinel or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.OrlandoSentinel.com. Copyright (c) 2011, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]