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May 18th 2016 Over 100 million LinkedIn users could find their email addresses and passwords for sale online, following a breach of the professional networking site’s data four years ago. The site is investigating. A hacker known as...
18 May 2016
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April 28th 2016 Online fraudsters are continually thinking of more convincing ways to part us from our money, our identity ... or both. For information and advice on spam and scam email, click here. Take phishing emails, for example. The...
28 April 2016
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April 13th 2016 More than a third of stalking victims are now targeted online as the internet leaves them with nowhere to hide, according to a major new study released by stalking awareness charity the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. For information and...
13 April 2016
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April 7th 2016 Thousands of people have received a new type of phishing email that includes the recipient’s name and home address. For information and advice on spam and scam email, click here. The emails claim to have been sent by a...
7 April 2016
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April 6th 2016 50% of schoolchildren surveyed by the NSPCC admit they've seen sexual, violent and other adult material on social media sites, apps and games. For information and advice on safeguarding children, click here. And 78% of...
6 April 2016
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April 4th 2016 England & Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has condemned the people who have made "shocking and vile" sexual threats against his infant daughter on Twitter. For more information on sensible social networking,...
4 April 2016
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