Free Security Resources & Links
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Advice
The UK National Cyber Security Centre
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance
The Cyber Helpline - providing free, expert help for victims of cybercrime in the UK
https://www.thecyberhelpline.com/
Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) Cybersecurity Toolkit
SebDB, a FREE cyber security behaviour database of cyber security risks and how these link to security behaviours
www.cybsafe.com/research/security-behaviour-database/
FREE 'Cyber Streetwise' Advice from the UK Government
https://www.cyberstreetwise.com/
Get Safe Online
https://www.getsafeonline.org/
OnGuardOnline.gov is the US federal government’s website to help you be safe, secure and responsible online. Try the series of videos and interactive quizzes on online security.
Kaspersky Labs Computer Threats FAQ
https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/resource-center/threats
Typosquatting – what happens when you mistype a website?
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/typosquatting/
Microsoft Windows end of support dates
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
Microsoft Windows Server end of support dates
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/lifecycle/search/1163
Cisco Umbrella Infographics
https://learn-umbrella.cisco.com/infographics
Shop Safely Online
https://couponfollow.com/research/shop-safely-online
Computer and Internet Safety Tips
https://online.maryville.edu/online-bachelors-degrees/cyber-security/internet-safety-tips/
Planning for Business Emergencies: Data Breaches Explained
https://alertfind.com/planning-for-business-emergencies/
Cifas, the UK’s fraud prevention service
Rowenna Fielding's data protection and info rights blog
University of York - Intro to Cyber Security and Data Protection
https://online.york.ac.uk/resources/introduction-to-cyber-security-data-protection/
Fraud & Cybercrime Prevention resources from the NEBRC
https://www.nebrcentre.co.uk/resources/
The Ultimate Guide To Cyber Essentials
https://info.cybertecsecurity.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-cyber-essentials
UK Metropolitan Police’s free Little Book of Big Scams
https://bit.ly/LittleBookofBigScams
Guide to Online Holiday Shopping Safety
capitaloneshopping.com/blog/holiday-shopping-safety-tips
Internet Privacy & Security: How to Protect Your Digital Privacy
https://www.idstrong.com/sentinel/internet-privacy-security/
Information Security Handbook for Network Beginners by the Government of JAPAN
https://www.nisc.go.jp/security-site/campaign/files/aj-sec/handbook-all_eng.pdf
Advice for Parents
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) guide to internet safety for parents and young people.
Cyberbullying Research Center
Official US government website on bullying and cyberbullying
UK Safer Internet Centre, offers e-safety tips, advice and resources to help children and young people stay safe online.
Internet Matters, an independent, organisation to help parents keep their children safe online
http://www.internetmatters.org/
Firefox for families - The TechTalk
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/family/
Dark Fairytales for Modern Kids - Reimagined Children's Books Teach Kids About Internet Safety
https://surfshark.com/cybersecurity-books-for-children
Cyber Legends - Empowering kids to learn online safety through play
Digital Citizenship: Guide for Parents by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
http://bit.ly/Digital-Citizenship-Guide
A Teens Guide to Cyber Security
https://www.hotspotshield.com/resources/teens-guide-to-cyber-security/
Staysafe.org's guide on Internet Safety for Teens
https://www.staysafe.org/teens/
National Online Safety Free Software Platform Guides
https://nationalonlinesafety.com/guides
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) online safety guide
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
How to Keep Kids Safe Using Social Media
https://www.consumerprotect.com/how-to-keep-kids-safe-using-social-media/
How to Protect Your Children on Their Smartphone
https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/protect-your-children-smartphone/
Broadband Parental Controls & Internet Safety for Children
https://www.gocompare.com/broadband/parental-controls/
Library of independent age-based and educational ratings and reviews for games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
The eSafety Guide For Parents & Kids
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-issues/esafety-guide
Childnet International's internet safety resources
https://www.childnet.com/blog/
The Ultimate Parental Guide to Protecting Your Child Online
https://vpnvanguard.com/the-ultimate-parental-guide-to-protecting-your-child-on-the-internet/
Digital/Cyber Safety Tips For Kids – How To Stay Safe Online?
https://topreviewedten.com/kids-esafety-guide/
What is Child Identity Theft and How Can You Protect Them
https://www.idstrong.com/sentinel/child-identity-theft-how-to-protect-your-child/
Identity Theft Protection Guide: Keep Your Family Safe
https://www.vpntesting.com/identity-theft
Parents’ Guide for Safe YouTube & Internet Streaming for Kids
https://www.safetydetective.com/blog/parents-guide-for-safe-youtube-and-internet-streaming-for-kids/
10 Most Common Cyber Bullying Tactics
https://bullyproofclassroom.com/10-most-common-cyber-bullying-tactics
Cyberbullying: What Parents & Teenagers Need to Know
https://socialmediavictims.org/cyberbullying/effects/
How to Protect Your Children on Their Smartphone
https://www.tigermobiles.com/blog/how-to-protect-your-children-on-their-smartphone/
Teenage cybercrime: Help your child make the right #CyberChoices
Domain Name System (DNS) Nameservers
Free DNS nameservers with filtered security.
VPN Jurisdiction By Country
https://thebestvpn.com/5-9-14-eyes-countries/
VPN Guide: Legality, Jurisdictions & Internet Censorship
https://vpn-review.com/are-vpns-legal/
Using a VPN Beginner's Guide
Free Cyber Security Training
NCSC's Free Cyber Security Training for Staff
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/training/top-tips-for-staff-scorm-v2/scormcontent/index.html
Barclays Bank fraud quiz - Can you spot a super con?
www.barclays.co.uk/security/digitally-safe-quiz
Barclays Bank Cyber Security Awareness Toolkit
https://www.barclayscorporate.com/insights/fraud-protection/cyber-fraud-toolkit/
Virgin Media Cybercrime Test
www.virginmedia.com/blog/online-safety/cyber-security-quiz/
Cyber Security for Beginners - Learn how to secure your online world in just 5 weeks of FREE cyber security training!
https://cybersecuritycourse.co/
Cyber Security for Small Business Owners - Learn how to protect your business in 7 weeks of FREE cyber security training! https://learninfosec.co.uk/
ESET’s Online Cybersecurity Awareness Training
https://www.eset.com/us/cybertraining/
FREE Security Awareness Program (20+ videos)
https://wizer-training.com/partner/compusec/security-awareness
Cyber Security Quick Guides
https://www.wizer-training.com/guides/top8-cyber-security-quick-guides
Free Cybersecurity Training from RangeForce
https://www.rangeforce.com/blog/tag/training
Cisco OpenDNS Phishing Quiz
https://www.opendns.com/phishing-quiz/
Google’s Phishing Quiz
https://phishingquiz.withgoogle.com/
KnowBe4's Guide to Social Engineering
https://www.knowbe4.com/what-is-social-engineering/
KnowBe4's Social Engineering Red Flags handout
Reporting Incidents, Fraudulent Links and Emails
Reporting a cyber security incident in the UK
Report a phishing email to the UK NCSC Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS): report@phishing.gov.uk
UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_phishing
PhishTank is a free service by Cisco OpenDNS to report phishing links: http://www.phishtank.com
Report tech support scams, whether they claim to be from Microsoft or from another tech company:
Report email misuse for Outlook.com and Hotmail:
Report abuse or suspected cyberattacks for Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, & Office 365:
https://msrc.microsoft.com/report/abuse
Report unsafe & malicious websites to Microsoft
www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/support/report-unsafe-site
Report email misuse for a Google Mail account: abuse@gmail.com or support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse
Report email misuse for Yahoo Mail account: abuse@yahoo.com
To report phishing in Google Mail, open the email and select ‘Report phishing’ from the drop-down menu.
Report phishing on Apple services: reportphishing@apple.com
Reporting a possible scam in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-RPS
Report a phishing or spoofed Amazon email: spoofing@amazon.com
Report a fake PayPal email or spoofed website: spoof@paypal.com
Report misuse of Bit.ly links: support@bitly.com
Report fraudulent DocuSign attachments
Report phishing or malicious files shared on Dropbox:
Report phishing or malicious files shared on Box.com:
Report phishing or malicious files shared via WeTransfer
https://wetransfer.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Report fraud in Quora posts: privacy@quora.com
Report illegal activity such as fraud, phishing and malware for web domains registered with GoDaddy
https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/AbuseReport
Report a potentially dangerous website to Google
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
Report a phishing email to the Google Safe Browsing team: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
UK Job Scam Advice & Reporting Service
https://www.safer-jobs.com/contact/report_incident
To report a spam mobile phone text message forward the text to 7726 (spells out SPAM)
Passwords
Check if you have been compromised in a data breach
https://cybernews.com/personal-data-leak-check
Worst Passwords Lists
https://nordpass.com/most-common-passwords-list/
https://www.teamsid.com/1-50-worst-passwords-2019/
https://teampassword.com/blog/worst-passwords-of-2018
https://www.teamsid.com/worst-passwords-2016/
Top 10,000 most common passwords
http://www.passwordrandom.com/most-popular-passwords
Unmasked: What 10 million passwords reveal about the people who choose them
https://wpengine.co.uk/resources/passwords-unmasked-infographic/
How to pick a proper password - by Sophos
Strong password generators
https://www.f-secure.com/gb-en/password-generator
https://nordpass.com/password-generator/
Scams
UK Metropolitan Police’s free Little Book of Big Scams
https://bit.ly/LittleBookofBigScams
UK Metropolitan Police’s free Little Book of Cyber Scams
https://bit.ly/LittleBookofCyberScams
Take Five a national awareness campaign led by FFA UK
https://takefive-stopfraud.org.uk
Bitdefender study ‘A Glance Into The Psychology Of Facebook Scam Victims’
UK national fraud and cyber crime reporting centre.
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
Tech support scams advice
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/support-scams
How to spot the HMRC tax phone scam
https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/how-to-spot-the-hmrc-tax-phone-scam
A Guide to Avoiding Identity Theft
https://www.totallymoney.com/identity-theft-protection-guide/
How to spot a catfish: 8 top tips to avoid catfishing
https://www.eharmony.co.uk/dating-advice/dating/how-to-spot-a-catfish
LinkedIn - Recognizing and Reporting Scams
UK Job Scam Advice & Reporting Service
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Infographics
Cyber Security: Small Business Guide
Small Business Guide: Response & Recovery
Phishing attacks: defending your organisation
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Guides
Cyber security guidance for small businesses
Board toolkit - to encourage cyber security discussions
How to prepare for a cyber incident, from response through to recovery
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Tools
Threat Reports
ivanti Ransomware Index Report Q2‑Q3 2022
https://www.ivanti.com/lp/security/reports/ransomware-quarterly-index-report
Sophos Threat Reports
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/pdfs/technical-papers/sophos-2021-threat-report.pdf
www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/pdfs/technical-papers/sophoslabs-uncut-2020-threat-report.pdf
Trend Micro 2019 Midyear Security Roundup
https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/rpt/rpt-evasive-threats-pervasive-effects.pdf
McAfee Labs Quarterly Threats Report
Threats Report - June 2021.pdf
Threats Report - April 2021.pdf
Threats Report - November 2020.pdf
Threats Report - July 2020.pdf
Threats Report - August 2019.pdf
Threats Report - December 2018.pdf
Threats Report - September 2018.pdf
Threats Report - June 2018.pdf
Threats Report - March 2018.pdf
Threats Report - December 2017.pdf
Threats Report - September 2017.pdf
McAfee Labs Threats Report infographic overview
infographic-threats-report-December-2018.pdf
infographic-threats-report-September-2018.pdf
infographic-threats-report-June-2018.pdf
infographic-threats-report-March-2018.pdf
infographic-threats-report-December-2017.pdf
infographic-threats-report-September-2017.pdf
infographic-threats-report-June-2017.pdf
infographic-threats-report-March-2017.pdf
infographic-threats-report-December-2016.pdf
infographic-threats-report-September-2016.pdf
infographic-threats-report-May-2016.pdf
infographic-threats-report-March-2016.pdf
Cisco Annual Security Report
Cisco Security Report Infographics
http://bit.ly/cisco-asr-2017-graphic
http://bit.ly/cisco-asr-2016-graphic
http://bit.ly/cisco-msr-2015-graphic
Cisco Midyear Security Reports
Proofpoint Quarterly Threat Reports
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/threat-reports
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/verizon-insights-lab/dbir/
Secunia Vulnerability Review 2018
https://www.flexera.com/products/software-vulnerability-research
UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Threat and Vulnerability Reports
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Antivirus
Avira Free Security Suite
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Kaspersky® Anti-Ransomware Tool for Business - FREE
https://www.kaspersky.com/anti-ransomware-tool
Avast Mobile Security for Android
https://www.avast.com/en-gb/free-mobile-security
Sophos Intercept X for Mobile for Android
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/android-security-app
The AV-TEST Institute is an independent service provider in the fields of IT security and anti-virus research.
Comparitech's antivirus guides and advice
Online Tools
VirusTotal is a free service that analyses suspicious files and web site addresses.
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Database
The No More Ransom Project
F‑Secure’s free online tools
https://www.f-secure.com/gb-en/home/free-tools
FREE Standalone Virus Scanner from Kaspersky
https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/downloads#tools
FREE Standalone Virus Scanner from Trend Micro
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
FREE Standalone Virus Scanner from ESET
Security Blogs
Graham Cluley, independent computer security analyst
Naked Security is Sophos's award-winning threat news room
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/
Heimdal Security Blog
https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/
Krebs on Security by Brian Krebs
Malwarebytes Labs Blog
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/
IT Security Guru
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/
The Last Watchdog
Schneier on Security
Dark Reading
Davey Winder - Freelance Technology Journalist
The Antisocial Engineer Blog
https://theantisocialengineer.com/blog/
John Opdenakker's Personal Infosec blog
SentinelOne Blog
https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/
G DATA Security Blog
https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog
Surfshark Cybersecurity Blog
https://surfshark.com/blog/cybersecurity
15 of the Biggest Data Breaches in The Last 15 Years
https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/biggest-data-breach-statistics/