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Get Safe Online membership costs revealed
News A Word document sent in error to silicon.com, ZDNet UK's sister site, has revealed that the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has specifically been consulting only with security and online fraud experts willing to pay between £50,000 and...
[October 28, 2005, 14:25]
NHTCU to launch Get Safe Online campaign
News The Get Safe Online campaign will target online consumers and businesses with fewer than 10 employees. Several large firms including Dell, HSBC, Microsoft, and eBay are involved in the scheme and will form part of the Get Safe Online
[October 20, 2005, 16:35]
Online safety push will target SMEs
News Online safety awareness campaign Get Safe Online is to focus on micro-businesses in the new year. Get Safe Online is currently in discussions with various chambers of commerce and the Federation of Small Businesses to decide the best way to raise...
[October 9, 2006, 16:50]
Small firms and consumers 'complacent about security'
News Get Safe Online warned this week that while most SMEs and consumers are aware of Internet security issues, they do not see safety as important enough to warrant specific action. I would like to think most small businesses and consumers are aware of...
[June 21, 2006, 12:25]
Anger as UK government promotes US back-up firms
News After complaining for months, online back-up services supplier Clunk Click has forced a change of heart from the Government over Get Safe Online, its Internet support site for companies and consumers.
[May 30, 2006, 15:00]
'Information Security Awareness Forum' is launched
News The Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF), launched on Tuesday at the British Computer Society (BCS) in London, will be an umbrella body for a number of organisations, including BCS, IT industry lobbying group EURIM, and web-safety campaign...
[February 12, 2008, 16:40]
E-tills ring out for Internet Shopping Day
News UK consumers are being encouraged to get their credit cards out and get online, to mark National Internet Shopping Day. Shopping online is at least as safe as shopping in the high street. Currently, the gender divide with online spending is roughly...
[July 24, 2003, 16:14]
Lords leap into security inquiry
News Cluley said awareness-raising campaigns such as Get Safe Online had not had an appreciable effect or impact. Get Safe Online was launched with the best intentions, but it has failed. Those who haven't yet done so are being encouraged to get online...
[July 31, 2006, 12:15]
Why the Lords is investigating security
News Will you be talking to computer security awareness raising Web sites like Get Safe Online? We may talk to Get Safe Online, I can't say yet. More people are using the Internet for all sorts of things, and there is more online abuse.
[August 1, 2006, 16:45]
Online banking: Anatomy of a hacking
News Even if you have never banked online, your money may never be completely safe from an electronic heist. Given the conflicting opinions and dearth of public information on specific incidents, it is impossible to assess with any certainty how safe...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
AOL wins 'hostile code' ruling
News One legal expert, who called the decision unprecedented, said it would help ISPs tamp down abuse by subscribers who try to get one another kicked off an online service. In what legal experts describe as a first, a US District Court has upheld a...
[January 23, 2003, 14:30]
Microsoft 'frightened' by police XP hack
News At a Get Safe Online event on Monday aimed at heightening security awareness among small businesses, officers connected a machine running Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) to an unsecured wireless network.
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
ISPs shunned by Web safety drive
News BT is the only ISP to have signed up so far for the Get Safe Online scheme which launches later this week and that has caused some to question the effectiveness of the initiative. However, a spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association...
[October 26, 2005, 17:55]
Internet shopping is safe, says Consumer Association
News Guide to Money on the Internet finds that despite the lack of clarity on UK Internet fraud laws, consumers should feel safe about shopping online. In Lowe's opinion, smartcards or "slash plastic" offer a safe alternative to entering credit card...
[October 15, 2001, 11:26]
Net users falling for "AOL virus" joke
News Maybe that's because all the others can't get online anymore. He even got a handful from people who had taken the warning seriously and deleted America Online from their system. The smart people had a good laugh, and the dumb people were scared as...
[June 11, 2001, 11:51]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Repeat after me: online shopping is safe," says the Sunday Times. Shopping online via a secure server is safe already and about to become even safer with the imminent arrival of stronger forms of encryption.
[September 7, 1998, 15:30]
Trojan exploits Outlook Express
News What makes it important now is the availability of online tools that make it easy to create these messages. A fake extension structure intended to get around filtering softwareA fake visible extension to trick people into opening an attachment by...
[February 20, 2003, 11:13]
Roundup: UK online banking security crisis
News Wed, 02nd Aug 2000Forty-eight hours is a long time for an online bank. Wed, 02nd Aug 2000As Barclays tries to deal with its second online security breach in 48 hours, the Consumer Association is still condemning it for the carelessness that led to...
[August 11, 2000, 17:00]
Microsoft wants Internet safe for .Net
News Like the poor security that originally surrounded tone dialing and let hackers misuse the phone network, poor security on the Internet today allows online vandals, hackers and others free reign, Mundie said.
[November 8, 2001, 10:26]
Flat-rate AOL survives in UK, despite German angst
News The absence of a FRIACO-like product means that AOL is currently charging the winners of its lottery the fixed 19.90 euro monthly fee, but having to pay Deutsche Telekom for every minute they are online.
[February 26, 2003, 16:14]
