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6 podcasts to improve your security: are you listening?

Podcasts are a way of expanding your knowledge and understanding of a topic while on the go, exercising or washing up—and they are good for you, too! We’ve selected a range of cyber security podcasts that you might find interesting. None of them require technical knowledge and all are potentially relevant, covering security at home and in business. Security in ...
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Can you trust the website you’re visiting? 10 tips

The internet is built on trust; the more links in to a website, the more trustworthy it is believed to be, and the higher it will rank in search engines. But that doesn’t really help you decide whether you can trust a website you’ve come across by another route. 10 tips to know whether a website is trustworthy None of ...
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Cyber Security Foundations: Passwords

Good, strong, passwords are an effective way of stopping unauthorised people from getting access to your information and accounts. Unfortunately, according to one study, we typically use up to 80 passwords online on average. This makes it increasingly difficult to remember them, and getting a password reset if you’ve forgotten it can take an inconveniently long time, even if the ...
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Cyber Security Foundations: Malware Protection

Malware, or malicious software, is software that has been designed to cause harm by damaging or destroying your computer systems or data. The best-known kinds of malware are viruses: these viruses are causing the number of ransomware attacks to grow at the moment and there are other kinds of malware to be aware of too. So, how to avoid getting ...
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Cyber Security Foundations: Phishing Awareness

Phishing attacks are very common, and are getting harder to spot. Scammers create thousands of fake emails at a time, trying to trick people into sharing their bank details or other personal information, sending money, or clicking links to bad websites. By sending out thousands of emails, which is cheap and easy to do, they hope that at least a ...
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Safe as houses – cyber security for estate agents

As professionals involved in what is often the biggest single purchase that people make, estate agents have a responsibility to their clients and to the buyers, to make sure that everyone’s personal information is as safe as possible. Similarly, letting agencies deal with highly sensitive information, sometimes for inexperienced clients such as students. In both cases, a cyber security attack ...