With all the recent hacks, should you change your password?

With all the data breaches in the news lately, it’s hard to know whether you’ve been affected. You could just change all your passwords after every reported breach – just in case. You could insist on tokens for everything. (Of course, that might raise additional concerns) You could stop using the internet entirely. Or you […]

Should Cyber Stalking be a Criminal Offence?

Cyber-stalking should be made a criminal offence, says a group of MPs calling for an overhaul of the law. The MPs also say police and prosecutors must give all stalking complaints greater priority. Data released by probation union Napo shows 2.2% of the 53,000 stalking incidents recorded in England and Wales in 2009 led to […]

Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security – Threats and Trust in Cyberspace Conference – 2011 – Review

About the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security: As stated on the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security’s website- “The origin of the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security can be traced to 2007. Representatives of the School of Computing Science, the North East Fraud Forum (NEFF) , and relevant international experts came together to […]

ITV Tonight: Cyberwars

Cyber Wars: ITV1 Thursday 24th February at 7.30pm The internet and the virtual world has come to play a bigger and bigger part in our day to day lives. Increasing amounts of our business and daily routine is carried out online. Tonight we show that whilst this has brought huge benefits, there are also risks. […]