You may have heard about this thing called the internet. It's great: there are kittens and rainbows and unicorns, but sadly also phishers and hackers and cybercrims.

Fortunately the UK Home Office's Cyber Streetwise campaign is a source of advice, common sense, videos and even games to help you keep your data, devices, identity and sanity safe online.

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Foil the phishers

In the realm of email security, the Cyber Streetwise blog recently wrote about cybercriminals targeting students with bogus offers of university grants. Have a read to find out how to avoid falling for scams like this.

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First published: 3 October 2016

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