Make sure you're cyber safe

Coronavirus misinfomration is flooding the internet and the experts are calling on the public to practice "information hygeine". What can you do to stop the spread of bad information? 

Updated figures show there have been 105 reports to Action Fraud since 1 February 2020.

Facebook has said that a software issue was responsible for posts on topics including coronavirus being wrongly marked as spam.

Internet companies must do more to tackle "an explosion" in images of child sex abuse on their platforms, a UK-held inquiry has concluded.

TikTok is introducing a new "family safety mode" designed to give parents tighter control over teens' mobile phone habits.

Fifty per cent of the UK's 10-year-olds owned a smartphone in 2019, according to a report by media regulator Ofcom.

'I believe it will be transformational,' says information commissioner. 

Sites must assess content for sexual abuse and suicide risk or face fines of up to £17m.

Bitdefender says apps affected include a racing simulator, several QR code scanners and a weather app.

Security flaws on the TikTok video-sharing platform, that could have let hackers add or delete videos, change privacy settings and steal personal data, have been fixed after they were highlighted to developer ByteDance.

YouTube aims to improve protections for children on the platform.

Researchers urge users to update app to latest version to protect against this bug.