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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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May 4th 2018 Twitter has advised all of its users to change their passwords "out of an abundance of caution", following a fault which exposed some passwords in plain text on its internal network. At Get Safe Online we advise that you...
4 May 2018
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May 1st 2018 Police Scotland and the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) have joined forces to warn of the hidden dangers of shopping online after consumers’ details were used to set up websites selling counterfeit products. For our...
1 May 2018
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