Every year, a massive £1.2 billion is lost to investment scams in this country. As we all know, fraudsters are getting more clever by the day, and they're using the ploy of high returns on schemes such as share sales, wine investments, land banking and carbon credits to lure in unsuspecting victims. Anyone – however […]

Today found members of the Get Safe Online team at Westminster, where we participated in the Home Affairs Select Committee on e-crime.  We were accompanied by volunteers representing three different age groups – youngsters, families and 'silver surfers' – who generously gave of their time and openly discussed their views, attitudes, experiences and concerns in […]

Working in this sector, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised about anything I hear. Even about people's behaviour on Facebook. But I was surprised when I attended a recent cybersecurity industy dinner. The young lady I was sitting next to worked for a county council (which I shall not name here), and told me that […]

It’s only early November, but the M&S commercials on my TV (seems funny without the normal celebs this year) and the Christmas baubles in my local supermarket tell me that Christmas is just around the corner. So at Get Safe Online, we’d like to give you an early present … the gift of online safety. […]

Yesterday saw over 400 policy makers, practitioners and industry stakeholders get together for the Cyber Security Summit, billed as the year's leading forum for debating the future for cybersecurity. It was held at London's Inmarsat Conference Centre. Our Chief Exec Tony Neate was amongst the speakers at this year's event. Tony spoke to a receptive […]

Well, Get Safe Online Week is over for another year – and the team has been tremendously encouraged by the very positive response from the public.  We believe that the media and social media coverage we achieved last week has played a pivotal role in raising awareness of our activities, to say nothing of our […]

Get Safe Online Week Well, Day One of Get Safe Online Week 2012 is drawing to a close. It’s been a long day, but immensely satisfying, as we feel we’ve really increased awareness in Cardiff, our first port of call. We were at Cardiff Central Station from first light until 9.15 – giving out leaflets […]