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Get Safe Online with free, expert advice

Today marks the start of Get Safe Online week, an annual event to raise awareness of Internet safety issues. Through a variety of events, competitions and press activities, the GSO team reach out to consumers and small businesses to highlight the potential

Spam overwhelms email messages

This is a story on the BBC website on a just-published Microsoft security report, which states that more than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted. Ed Gibson, chief cyber security advisor at Microsoft, said the rise in spam was due to traditional

Free worm and virus support

I blogged about the Conficker worm ( WORM attack: is your PC secure? ) at the end of January - hopefully everyone who doesn't have automatic updates configured on their PCs will have downloaded the patch now. There are still rumblings in the press though,

Computer viruses go galactic

Viruses have now made it into orbit. The BBC news story says Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the International Space Station in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks
 
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