You know how you work in a particular field or industry, and your knowledge of what goes on in your work doesn't stop at 5.30 on a Friday? If you were in printing, for example, and your beloved excitedly brought home the latest holiday brochure, the first thing you excitedly looked at wouldn't be the […]

I’m an idiot. Recently, I received a direct Twitter message from my one of my closest friends late one night. It said, “did you see this picture of you lol” and included a shortened web link. Considering that my friend is a photographer who I know has photos of me, it wasn’t strange to receive […]

Online dating is a 365-day-a-year activity, but it's on Valentine's Day when a lot of people give it a go for the first time. Have fun, but take a few tips on board: Select Your Dating Site(s) Wisely Choose a site that will protect your privacy until you're comfortable revealing personal information, and enforces its […]

Exchanging Valentine's Day cards and gifts is a fun tradition…unless the message is really an attempt to trick you into buying a non-existent product or visit a malicious website. Here are a few Valentine's Day scams we expect to see this year: E-cards. Everyone likes to receive thoughtful cards, especially if we think it may […]

These hackers are getting everywhere. According to this morning's Metro, viewers were stunned when their programming was disrupted by warnings of zombies rising from their graves and attacking the living. Four (viewers, not zombies) actually called the police to see if it was true. Well, this is the USA we're talking about. Anway, it turns […]

I suppose I should stop being surprised about the speed at which technology develops. Here's an example: At Barcelona's Mobile World Congress jsut three years ago almost to the day, telecoms giant Alcatel Lucent launched the '4G Prius' to an unsupecting world. The heavily-converted Toyota featured a display that would not only be able to […]

Tony Larks recounts a personal experience …. Things move pretty fast in cyber space. We’ve all been pulled along on a web-based rollercoaster ride of technological ingenuity and innovation over the past 15 years, bringing us more and more ways to stay in touch and share our lives. It’s easier than it’s ever been to […]

I'm delighted to say that Get Safe Online's Cyber Pro-Prefects initiative in support of Safer Internet Day is proving a resounding success. My colleague, Partnerships Manager Laura Beckett spoke with students at Luckley-Oakfield School in Wokingham this morning. "They embraced the challenge amazingly well" Laura has told me. "We did a great assembly with the […]

Get Safe Online's Chief Exec Tony Neate is delighted at the response he received to an online safety chat at Hawthorns High School in Pontypridd earlier today. Tony addressed 150 year 7 pupils at assembly as part of our 'Cyber Pro-Prefects' challenge, which we've put together in conjunction with Partners SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency, SCDEA […]

A national codebreaking competition has been won by an extremely bright team of four students from a London school. Why not read our page on data encryption to find out how codes are used in everyday life? Click here Samson Danziger, Daniel Hu, Anthony Landau and Charlie Hu from City of London School took 44 […]