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Adults in the UK are risking their online security by using identical or easy to remember passwords on the websites they visit. For information and advice on passwords, click here This has been revealed in new research by Ofcom, the...
23 April 2013
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Get Safe Online and Norton are joining forces this evening to help parents keep their children safe online, on the same day as an NSPCC report highlights the dangers. Marian Merritt, Norton’s Online Family Safety Advocate and Tony...
18 April 2013
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Make sure you update your Windows and Java software as soon as you are prompted to do so by their suppliers Microsoft and Oracle. For information and advice on updating Windows, click here For information and advice on updating your...
17 April 2013
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The continuing increase in online criminal activity is confirmed in Symantec's 18th annual Internet Security Threat Report, just published. This highlights the need for people to be more aware of the dangers of going online using any device,...
16 April 2013
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WordPress, the web platform which powers around 17% of the world's websites and blogs*, has been attacked by a botnet of tens of thousands of individual computers. The attack comes just after WordPress increased security with optional two-step...
15 April 2013
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