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Get Safe Online warns of scareware scams

...cold-called by fraudsters in scareware scams, according to safety awareness campaign Get Safe Online. The scams normally involve fraudsters calling and pretending to be... Read more

15 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

MPs: Police need to learn about e-crime

...malware and scams. Official e-crime education efforts are largely focused on Get Safe Online, but this needs "substantial investment and improvement", they said in... Read more

2 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Defence companies targeted in spear-phishing attack

...schemes to make sure people are aware of the risks. One initiative, Get Safe Online, has now been allocated £400,000 in funding, Maude announced... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

IBM pushes out managed phone security service

...can also detect and remove malicious and unapproved apps. The UK's Get Safe Online campaign launched a major push last week to warn consumers... Read more

14 November, 2011

Google launches Good To Know before UK safety week

...a bit of its undoubted marketing weight behind the UK's national Get Safe Online campaign, and/or America's OnGuardOnline.gov, which is currently... Read more

19 October, 2011

UK cybersecurity spending plans revealed

...go towards building public awareness of digital risks, via schemes such as Get Safe Online. Ocsia is hoping that the cybersecurity investment will act as... Read more

20 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Online safety push will target SMEs

Online safety awareness campaign Get Safe Online is to focus on micro-businesses in the new year... Read more

9 October, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Small firms and consumers 'complacent about security'

...according to banking experts at a government-backed safety advice Web site. Get Safe Online warned this week that while most SMEs and consumers are... Read more

21 June, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Get Safe Online membership costs revealed

...000 and £150,000 in order to raise funds for its latest Get Safe Online initiative. In return, the sponsors are offered the opportunity to... Read more

28 October, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

ISPs shunned by Web safety drive

...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... Read more

26 October, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

'Information Security Awareness Forum' is launched

...organisations, including BCS, IT industry lobbying group EURIM, and web-safety campaign Get Safe Online. The forum was created as a result of various security... Read more

12 February, 2008 by Tom Espiner
Tailored Software Solution Helps Public Sector Web Site Cope With High Traffic and Hacking Threats

Tailored Software Solution Helps Public Sector Web Site Cope With High Traffic and Hacking Threats

Get Safe Online - an initiative from the United Kingdom government - aims to raise... Read more

9 November, 2007

"Toothless" online safety drive 'will fail without ISPs'

...but the ISPs claim to have been shunned by Get Safe Online... The latest UK government-backed initiative to encourage secure computing... Read more

25 October, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

UK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals

...fraudsters was revealed in the 2008 report by the secure computing initiative Get Safe Online (GSO), whose members include HSBC, Microsoft and the Serious Organised... Read more

17 November, 2008 by Nick Heath
Secure Computing for Secure Colleges & Universities

Secure Computing for Secure Colleges & Universities

...to access risky websites or share sensitive information, according to research by Get Safe Online. The research reveals widespread ignorance about the basics of IT... Read more

28 October, 2008

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