Join us and our partners in next Wednesday’s Twitter chat about avoiding ticket fraud - 19 Jun, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

Join Get Safe Online, StubHub, City of London Police and Action Fraud for a Twitter Chat about protecting yourself against online ticket fraud on 26^th June

Exciting news! We’re teaming up with Stubhub, City of London Police (NFIB) and Action Fraud next week to host a live Twitter chat on how to avoid online ticket fraud.

Whether you want to...

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Are your kids trying to get hold of your passwords? Don’t relent! - 24 May, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

Here are some scary figures, in an age where parents are constantly being reminded of the dangers of their kids going online without due education, controls or monitoring. The stats come courtesy of a recent study reported on Mail Online earlier this week.

One in four of the 2,000 five to 18 year-olds surveyed, have run up internet bills on...

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Combating fraud and identity theft in the mobile channel - 22 May, 2013

By Pat Carroll, CEO, ValidSoft

There is a lot of talk about the need for better education of customers, but while the industry has a responsibility to continue educating, education alone is never going to be enough to cure the problem.

The reason? Because no matter how low you set the bar, some people will apparently continue to hand over personal information to virtually...

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Romance fraud. Report it confidentially and save your embarrassment - 16 Apr, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

The heart (and bank) breaking scandal of romance fraud continues to increase, despite warnings on dating sites, information and advice on websites like Get Safe Online and the raft of real life stories in the media. 

I say "heartbreaking" in two contexts .... not only is it gutting to suffer financial losses of the scale that reports suggest,...

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Register now for the Child Internet Safety Conference - 15 Apr, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

Our friends over at Child Internet Safety are organising a summit to be held on 11 July at the QE11 Conference Centre, Westminster. Event details - including how to register and costs - can be found here.

They're keen to ensure effective involvement from delegates with the aim of introducing relevant organisations and departments to senior...

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Why is reuse so difficult? - 13 Apr, 2013

By Bo Harald, Chairman of the Board of Zef Solutions.

Most countries have established e-society strategies aiming at ao providing public sector services via the Internet. Progress has generally been fast with general information sharing  - but when it comes to private information (health, tax, social benefits, school records etc) - not to talk about signing documents - progress is generally stopped...

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Beware of ‘HMRC VAT’ emails bearing attachments or containing links - 11 Apr, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

Always being on the lookout for potential incoming scams and the like, I came across this one yesterday, an email purporting to be from HMRC to an adhesives company I work for one day a week.

The email invites recipients to open an attached 'report' to view the latest information on their VAT return. My colleague Lisa kindly did a screen dump...

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Join Get Safe Online and Norton for a Twitter Chat about keeping kids safe online - 10 Apr, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

Thursday 18th April from 7.30 to 8.30pm

Exciting news! We’re teaming up with Norton next week to host a live Twitter chat for parents around how to keep kids safe online.

Marian Merritt, Norton’s Online Family Safety Advocate and our very own Tony Neate will be on hand to answer your questions on anything from how to prevent cyber...

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Social networks: take care and enjoy the rollercoaster. - 21 Mar, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

You could say that today, two significant landmarks were passed in the world of social networking. And both are fantastic achievements in anyone’s book. 

Yes, on this day Twitter turns 7 and YouTube reaches a billion monthly users (yep, that's nine zeros).

Twitter celebrates its seventh birthday with 200 million users worldwide, who send an...

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Enter the Nominet Internet Awards. Only 10 days to go! - 18 Mar, 2013

By Tim Mitchell

At Get Safe Online we applaud any initiative to promote internet safety, and this one's no exception. 

Nominet - a valued Get Safe Online Associate Partner - is organising its annual competition to celebrate the achievements and innovation of UK internet initiatives, for the seventh time.

The objective? To showcase projects which help to...

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