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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]
Brits get online safety savvy
News People in the UK have become more safety aware when online, according to the British Computer Society (BCS). Ninety percent of UK computer users now take action to protect themselves from online threats, a survey conducted on behalf of the BCS has...
[August 9, 2006, 16:45]
Cyberangels preach online safety to East London teens
Talkback no comment! ha
[October 16, 2003, 14:51]
Cyberangels preach online safety to East London teens
Talkback uhm.im not from london.im from the philippines.anyways.i feel happy that there are security services here in cyberspace! more power! god bless! thats all.hehehe.
[June 2, 2004, 11:08]
Cyberangels preach online safety to East London teens
Talkback How will the new law deal with txt sex by an abuser to a victim. I mean when grooming carries on after initial link up in the chatroom, via the vitims mobile phone, probably with the hope of an actual meeting for the groomer ?
[April 29, 2004, 20:41]
House of Lords discusses child safety online
News The House of Lords is to debate the issue of protecting children online Tuesday at a seminar entitled Protecting the online generation: the crucial role of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). In the midst of controversy surrounding the adoption...
[January 22, 2001, 14:34]
Companies showcase online safety gadgets and software
News A handful of software companies are ringing online privacy bells as the holiday season approaches, urging consumers to give themselves the gift of Internet anonymity before venturing online to shop. Worries about online privacy focus on the common...
[December 6, 2000, 10:42]
Online banking: A veil of safety
News While not explosive, that steady increase represents a sea change in public perception about online banking, in many ways one of the last frontiers of electronic commerce. If this budding industry takes hold, people may find their private...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
Cyberangels preach online safety to East London teens
News Underprivileged children in the London borough of Newham are being trained to teach other teenagers in Internet safety. The "Teenangels" project targets London's 'best-connected' borough, and aims to devise Internet safety and privacy policies for...
[January 23, 2002, 17:53]
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]
European Commission to fund 'Safer Internet' hotlines
News See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on hacking, fraud, online child safety, viruses and legal issues. A European Internet safety project has received six million euros to fund a beefed-up awareness campaign promoting the dangers of...
[November 12, 2001, 17:06]
Secret Service probes university hackings
News Students at universities in four states may have been monitored by "spyware" placed on computers by online criminals to capture passwords and credit card numbers, said a public safety officer at one of the schools involved, on Thursday.
[June 21, 2002, 8:47]
'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]
Home Office pledges £1.5m to help protect children online
News This campaign is not intended to alarm people, but to alert them to the potential dangers that young people may face online and to help them surf in safety," said Hughes. Home Office minister Beverley Hughes announced the child safety campaign on...
[December 3, 2001, 11:38]
Free Software Offer Helps Child Internet Safety Web Site Promote Best Practice
White Papers The United Kingdom's National Internet Safety Centre and Cyberspace Research Unit (CRU) at the University of Central Lancashire launched a new Web site to improve awareness of child Internet safety in February 2006.
[March 24, 2008, 0:02]
Organised crime online needs an organised response
Leader When the heist happens on home computers, as it did with customers of Swedish bank Nordea, it's time to fundamentally review the assumptions on which the banks build our safety. Consumers are stuck with an insecure operating system, anti-malware...
[January 22, 2007, 15:18]
Home Office screens Internet paedophile warning ads
News The safety messages, which depict an actor posing as a paedophile, will be aired at cinemas, on commercial radio stations and in teen magazines early in the new year. The Internet Taskforce on Child Protection, chaired by Hughes, recently...
[December 19, 2001, 16:50]
AltaVista has overreacted, say privacy experts
News The Web portal has scrapped its chatroom facility in the light of recent concerns about child safety. The portals have come late to the safety issue in general -- there is still a substantial difference between how they and ISPs handle the problem.
[February 16, 2001, 9:54]
Why the Lords is investigating security
News How big a problem is Internet safety? We have launched the inquiry to find out what the situation is [regarding personal Internet safety], and find things that will help government help its citizens. More people are using the Internet for all sorts...
[August 1, 2006, 16:45]
Home PCs put cybersecurity at risk
News Protecting the safety of our technology infrastructure means protecting the computers of individual Americans," Dan Caprio, deputy assistant secretary for technology policy at the US Department of Commerce, said in a statement.
[October 25, 2004, 9:25]
