News & Events - Digital Resilience Initiative

Resources May 31, 20232 mins

NCSC: Top Tips for Staying Secure Online

The NCSC have outlined ten top tips for staying secure online. These range from advice on passwords, backing up your data and two step verification. These are all straightforward to implement and offer greater protection for individuals online. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/top-tips-for-staying-secure-online

Resources May 30, 20233 mins

Online Safety Guides for Children, Carers and Parents

The NSPCC, UK Safer Internet Centre and Internet Matters provides guidance for children, carers and parents that can help improve safety in the online world. https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/#guides https://www.internetmatters.org/schools-esafety/parent-online-support-pack-teachers/ https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers

Resources May 27, 20232 mins

Disinformation Toolkit

The Civic Resilience Initiative have developed a 101 Tool-kit to help people avoid being fooled by disinformation. https://cri.lt/2021/08/30/disinformation-tool-kit/

Resources May 26, 20232 mins

Phishing Scams: How to Spot and Report One

As of April 2023 there have been 20m reported scams across the UK. The NCSC provide advice on how to spot and report scam emails, texts, websites and calls. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/phishing-scams

News May 18, 20233 mins

Online child abuse reports up by 225% since last year.

Official figures from the UK police show a record of 316,900 cases of online child abuse. Majority abuse on Meta-owned social media (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp). Number of webpages containing most extreme (Category A) child sex abuse doubles. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-watch-foundation-npcc-government-people-asia-b2326084.html

News May 16, 20232 mins

Radio 1 sessions interview ‘7 Stars Who Have Personal Experience of Online Bullying’.

The list includes – Zayn Malik, Lorde, Jessy Nelson, Olly Alexander, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Nicola Roberts. Dr Radha provides 9 tips for dealing with online bullying. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QcD9W13Dr0bxmt4CMWVkGk/7-stars-who-have-personal-experiences-of-online-bullying

News May 15, 20233 mins

Meta has announced its findings from its recent youth safety initiatives

These include – responsible connections (and promoting responsible behaviour online), age-appropriate safeguards (and the notion of a holistic approach to parental controls) and innovation (bringing teens and guardians together to focus on online safety). https://www.thedailystar.net/tech-startup/news/brief-look-inside-metas-recent-youth-safety-initiatives-3315141

News May 14, 20234 mins

Dr Ian Levy discusses the importance of safety standards for software development to improve online safety

“Safe software shouldn’t help kids get access to damaging content and shouldn’t target them for adverts for inappropriate products like nicotine and cosmetic surgery” Safe software should provide a simple way for children to ask for help when they’ve made a mistake and for that help to be provided quickly and painlessly, whether the mistake […]