Cyber Scotland
Police Scotland’s advice and tips on how to keep yourself and your children safe online.
This guide highlights how fraudsters exploit social media marketplaces to trick users into buying or selling items that either don’t exist or aren’t as advertised – whether that’s goods, tickets or other services. It outlines what to watch out for, […]
Read more Social Media Marketplace Fraud Guide in modal dialogThis guide explains how criminals can hijack your mobile phone number by tricking your provider into switching your service to a SIM card under their control. Once they have your number, they can intercept calls and texts – including the […]
Read more SIM Swap Guidance in modal dialogThis strategy sets out how Police Scotland will take a proactive approach to respond to cyber demand, ensuring that we are future focused and able to adapt our policing model to suit the needs of the communities they serve.
Read more Police Scotland’s Cyber Security Strategy 2020 in modal dialogProvide a common, effective way for Scottish public sector organisations to assess their cyber resilience arrangements, identify areas of strength and weakness, gain reasonable confidence that they are adhering to minimum cyber resilience requirements, and take decisions on how/whether to […]
Read more Cyber Resilience Framework in modal dialogThe use of remote access software in committing crime online is not very wellknown, let alone how easily criminals use this method to attack unassumingvictims. Remote access scams occur where online business and individual accounts arecompromised by cyber criminals and […]
Read more Remote Access Fraud in modal dialogLearn how to protect yourself or your small business online with the Cyber Aware Action Plan. Answer a few questions on topics like passwords and two-factor authentication, and get a free personalised list of actions that will help you improve […]
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