Illegal streaming may be more dangerous than you think
With the explosion in streaming options across sports and entertainment, there are more options than ever to choose what to have streamed into your home. But in these difficult economic times, people are questioning the cost of such services and leading some to look at illegal streams and downloads from pirate sites. This puts your data at risk and could lead to you being the victim of a scam.
By Rightly
Wed 5 October 2022
5 minutes read
94 articles
Can privacy search engines help?
It’s hard to imagine life without the search engine. Most of us use a search engine of some kind multiple times every day, whether to find out some news, trying to find an item we want to buy, information about a destination or to find out the latest exploits of our favourite actor. But search results can come at a cost to our privacy. So what alternatives are there?
Wed 28 September 2022
5 minutes
Make sure retirement's what you planned
Scammers set out to capture the pension savings people build up over years by promising high returns and low risk. In reality, pension savers can be scammed and left with nothing. You could lose your life savings. What can pension savers do to keep themselves and their funds safe?
Wed 21 September 2022
5 minutes
Scammers from the upside down coming after students
For students heading to university, it’s an exciting time, full of promise. But emerging from the Upside Down, waiting in the wings, scammers are looking to exploit the period of change by targeting students’ money through a wide variety of scams. So what should students look out for and how can they protect themselves?
Wed 14 September 2022
5 minutes
Leaving a digital trail
Not all browsers are created equal when it comes to security of your personal data. Some of the most popular browsers in the world are being exposed for collecting and selling user data or lacking adequate security measures.
Wed 31 August 2022
5 minutes
Men behaving badly
We did some research among 2000+ adults across the UK and found that whilst most of us know to think twice when it comes to sharing information online, men are sometimes over-confident, under-cautious, and demonstrate riskier online behaviour than women when it comes to protecting their and their family's data.
Wed 17 August 2022
5 minutes
WWW Day: Celebration! and a little caution
We all use the World Wide Web every day, whether it’s to send an email, order a delivery, play a game or do your banking. It’s ubiquitous and has become as much of an essential service to modern life as electricity or running water. The Web allows us to open up amazing levels of communication all over the world, to reconnect with people we haven't seen in decades. But, it also enables criminals to target us, for sinister actors to manipulate elections and divide societies.
Wed 3 August 2022
5 minutes