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online safety and digital citizenship specialist

 Tagged with cyber security


19 June 2025

Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was nowhere to be seen, he asked Meta’s WhatsApp AI assistant for a contact number for TransPennine Express. The chatbot confidently sent him a mobile phone number for customer services, but it turned out to be the private number of a completely unconnected WhatsApp user 170 miles away in Oxfordshire.

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21 October 2024

Cyber Secure is a free tool that allows schools to review and improve their cyber and information security policy and practice and self-assess their current provision. The tool is structured according to categories indicating the safety and security ‘levels’ establishments can achieve, with level 0 being the lowest and most basic, and level 5 the highest and most aspirational.

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07 May 2024

Parentzone has teamed up with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to help young people understand how to stay more secure from online threats, such as scams and hacking.

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30 October 2023

This free government service for UK organisations performs a range of simple online checks to identify common vulnerabilities in your public-facing IT.

All checks are remote, without the need to install software and uses the same kind of publicly available information as cyber criminals use to find easy targets.

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