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Combating Financially Motivated Sexual Extortion - Webinar

Annabel Turner

Jun 32 min read

Combating Financially Motivated Sexual Extortion - Webinar

Join our free webinar to increase your understanding of financially motivated sexual extortion.

Working Together to keep North East Children Safe Online

Charlotte Lever

Feb 62 min read

Working Together to keep North East Children Safe Online

This Safer Internet Day, we’re asking everyone in the North East to work together to help protect children online. Cybersafe Scotland, an...

Online child safety social enterprise welcomes visit from Wellbeing Economy secretary

Charlotte Lever

Jan 173 min read

Online child safety social enterprise welcomes visit from Wellbeing Economy secretary

Aberdeen-based CyberSafe Scotland, a social enterprise that works to protect children in Scotland and around the world from online...

Annabel Turner

Dec 14, 20231 min read

Set Up Before You Wrap!

Next Monday there’ll be wrapping paper flying off gifts and excited begging for the next present. Attempts to set up parental controls go...

Cybersafe Scotland: Finalists at Scottish Cyber Awards 2023

Charlotte Lever

Nov 30, 20232 min read

Cybersafe Scotland: Finalists at Scottish Cyber Awards 2023

Cybersafe Scotland is proud to announce its nomination as a finalist for the Leading Education Programme category at the prestigious...

Children Using AI to Generate Nude Images - What do you need to know?

Annabel Turner

Nov 27, 20233 min read

Children Using AI to Generate Nude Images - What do you need to know?

There have been lots of reports in the media today about children using AI to generate nude images of other children (Today programme,...

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 6 - Gaming

Annabel Turner

Aug 16, 20233 min read

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 6 - Gaming

This week has been our most challenging week yet trying to find safe spaces for you! We’re all parents here at Cybersafe and researching...

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 5 - Music

Annabel Turner

Aug 9, 20234 min read

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 5 - Music

Music, music, music... whether you think of it as exciting, intimidating or expensive, there is such an amazing range of free channels,...

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 4 - Sports!

Annabel Turner

Aug 2, 20233 min read

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 4 - Sports!

Watching sports is a brilliant way of inspiring kids to get out and get active. Lots of us got involved with Joe Wicks and other fitness...

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 3: Maths and Coding!

Annabel Turner

Jul 26, 20235 min read

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 3: Maths and Coding!

So, many of us are halfway through the holidays now! Or nearly halfway! How are you getting on? Need any new ideas for channels? This...

OMEGLE: And how to talk with your child about online child sexual abuse

Annabel Turner

Jul 21, 20233 min read

OMEGLE: And how to talk with your child about online child sexual abuse

Do you understand Omegle? Are you already aware of the scale of abuse on the platform and how children are seeing it and linking through...

Safe Online Spaces for Summer -Week 2: Science and Nature

Annabel Turner

Jul 19, 20232 min read

Safe Online Spaces for Summer -Week 2: Science and Nature

Nature and time outside is a brilliant balancer to screentime - and vitally important for every child's physical and mental health. We...

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 1 – Creative Spaces

Annabel Turner

Jul 19, 20233 min read

Safe Online Spaces for Summer - Week 1 – Creative Spaces

This week we’re getting creative! Kids love being creative and this drives a lot of their activity online. We want to encourage this...

Annabel Turner

Jul 4, 20231 min read

Safe Online Spaces for Summer

Some schools are already on holiday and it’s nearly the end of term for everyone else! Kids and teachers are getting excited, but for...

Cybersafe Scotland Celebrates Launch Of New Lessons To Protect Girls Online

Annabel Turner

Mar 8, 20234 min read

Cybersafe Scotland Celebrates Launch Of New Lessons To Protect Girls Online

This International Women's Day is a great time for us to reflect on the progress made towards gender equality, but also to acknowledge...

Annabel Turner

Sep 20, 20222 min read

Molly Inquest Opens

Today is the first day of the inquest into the death of Molly Russell - who took her own life in 2017, when she was 14 years old. Since...

5 Simple Steps to Help Your Child - if they are anxious about what they are seeing online

Annabel Turner

Feb 24, 20222 min read

5 Simple Steps to Help Your Child - if they are anxious about what they are seeing online

In our sessions in schools today we were grateful when talking to pupils about the news on social media last night – that most of their...

Cybersafe Launches Digital Wellbeing and Online Harm Prevention Project 2022-2023

Annabel Turner

Feb 8, 20221 min read

Cybersafe Launches Digital Wellbeing and Online Harm Prevention Project 2022-2023

On Safer Internet Day 2022, Cybersafe is delighted to announce the launch of a new project in Aberdeen, in partnership with Aberdeen City...

Annabel Turner

May 12, 20213 min read

The Online Harms Bill in 3 minutes...

Today is a significant day. It sees the announcement of a piece of law that child online safety campaigners have been waiting for, for a...

Has your phone number been published as part of the Facebook data breach?

Annabel Turner

Apr 6, 20211 min read

Has your phone number been published as part of the Facebook data breach?

As much as 18 months ago now Facebook suffered a data breach where a significant number of phone numbers were obtained. Details of more...

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