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January 23 2019 Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 5th February with the slogan: ‘Together for a better Internet’. Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre, the celebration sees hundreds of...
23 January 2019
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November 26th 2018 This Christmas, Action Fraud is reminding shoppers to take extra care when shopping for gifts online. As consumers search online for bargains and gifts for loved ones, fraudsters are seeing this as an opportunity to trick...
26 November 2018
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November 23rd 2018 As if anybody needs reminding, today is Black Friday. A relatively recent phenomenon in the UK, Black Friday is a US tradition to mark the day after Thanksgiving, allegedly originating in Philadelphia where the term was used to...
23 November 2018
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November 15th 2018 The MiSafes Kid’s Watcher Plus location-tracking smartwatch has been found by security researchers to be lacking in basic security – posing potential dangers to the thousands of children who wear it, according the BBC. For...
15 November 2018
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November 8th 2018 The Children's Commissioner for England has issued a new report calling for a statutory duty of care towards online users. For information and advice on safeguarding children, click here. Who Knows What About Me says that vast...
8 November 2018
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October 24th 2018 New research released today from UK General Insurance in partnership with Cyber Aware has revealed that 79% of Brits surveyed keep emails in their inboxes that could be exploited by hackers for ID theft, fraud, or impersonation....
23 October 2018
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October 22nd 2018 New research produced for this year's Get Safe Online Week - which starts today - has revealed that the nation is sleepwalking towards fraud with the problem being so severe that 21 people are targeted every minute as a result...
22 October 2018
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October 18th 2018 As our 12th Get Safe Online Week gets set to launch next Monday, it seems impossible that last year’s ground-breaking Scammer Nanas campaign is now a year old. Get Safe Online Scammer Nanas campaign In the campaign, we...
18 October 2018
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