Online fraud should be seen as a ‘national security issue’

Fraud in the UK has become an epidemic and is damaging businesses, the country’s image and the public purse, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has claimed. The think tank says the country loses approximately $260 billion each year to fraud, the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to. Fraud against the public sector results in up …

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Many SMBs still find online collaboration challenging

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced most small and medium-sized businesses (SMB)  online. And yet, almost a year into the “new normal”, many SMBs still find it challenging to collaborate virtually. According to a new report from GetApp, almost two thirds of UK SMBs (64 percent) have conducted most of their business online since the start of the pandemic. Despite claiming …

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Details of 30,000 pension holders posted online

Pensions company Now:Pensions has suffered a data breach, with sensitive information on more than 30,000 customers leaked online, according to a report from The Guardian. Earlier this week, the company sent an email to affected customers, explaining that names, physical addresses, email addresses and birthdates were all leaked, as well as National Insurance numbers. The company manages auto-enrolled pensions for …

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Best online collaboration tools of 2020

Modern age and various unprecedented circumstances have pushed a large part of the global workforce to go mobile and/or start working from home. This transition has led to a rise in tools that allow these workers to accomplish their work tasks and remain in constant contact with their management, colleagues, and clients. Among the most popular ones have been online …

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The best online security suite of 2020

In this day and age when crime has spread into the technological sphere and has been active there for quite some time, your devices’ online security should never be taken lightly. There are some truly outstanding basic antivirus solutions that will keep your individual devices safe but sometimes the best approach is ‘one suite to rule them all’ – yours …

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Google is making big changes to your online storage

Google has announced a series of important changes to the free cloud storage service available to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) users. Announcing the changes in a blog post, the firm explained that high-resolution images, as well as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Jamboard content, will start to contribute towards each user’s cloud storage capacity as of  June …

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Security teams are struggling to curb employees’ risky work behaviors online

Warnings from security experts about the myriad of threats lurking online have fallen on deaf ears, as the majority of employees are still actively engaged in unsafe and unproductive web activity when they should be working. This is according to a new report from Censornet, based on a poll of 300 cybersecurity pros, which states that two thirds (67 percent) …

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