As we all know, you have to act quickly to buy tickets for festivals, concerts, major sporting fixtures and other popular events, otherwise you’ll be disappointed. For many people who aren’t lucky enough to secure tickets from the official ticketing site or venue, the first port of call is StubHub … more of which below. […]

Gagging for Glastonbury? Raring to get to Reading? Got your eye on the iTunes Festival? (Or any other gig or sporting event, for that matter). BUT … you’ve missed out on the tickets! It’s an awesome line-up and all your mates are going, so you’re desperate. What are you going to do? Naturally, the first […]

Join Get Safe Online, StubHub, Gumtree, City of London Police and Action Fraud for a Twitter Chat about protecting yourself against online ticket fraud on 26th June Exciting news! We’re teaming up with Stubhub, Gumtree, City of London Police (NFIB) and Action Fraud next week to host a live Twitter chat on how to avoid […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 due to a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]