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August 15th 2018 Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, has released new figures showing that identity fraud has fallen for the first time since 2014. Cifas members recorded 84,463 cases in the first six months of the year, a 5%...
14 August 2018
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August 14th 2018 A new campaign to tackle pension scams launches today as the latest figures reveal that victims of pension scammers lost an average of £91,000 each in 2017. For Get Safe Online's information and advice on protecting...
14 August 2018
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July 4th 2018 We are sleepwalking into a perilous new world of high-tech cybercrime. That is the stark warning in a new report issued by fraud watchdog the Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP) A society-wide failure to properly prepare for the next...
4 July 2018
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June 19th 2018 A new collaborative report, released today by Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, and digital forensics specialist Forensic Pathways, highlights that alongside the dark web, the surface web plays an integral role...
19 June 2018
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June 13th 2018 Consumer electronics retailing giant Dixons Carphone has revealed that it has fallen victim to a huge data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. The hacking attempt – which began in...
13 June 2018
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May 21st 2018 This week sees the final countdown to Friday's long-awaited implementation of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) – designed to give consumers more control over their online data. It seems that right now, everyone...
21 May 2018
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May 16th 2018 Facebook has released a new Youth Portal that offers teens guidance on how to navigate and stay secure whilst using the social media network. It also helps them to understand how their data is used. For information...
16 May 2018
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