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Safer Internet Day. Are you helping to build a better internet?

Safer Internet Day is the annual day for a better Internet, and is organised all over the world. More than 110 countries are working together to make the Internet a safe, creative and fun place for everyone! We also support Safer Internet Day.…

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Beware of phishing messages supposedly sent by 2dehands

In the last two weeks we’ve been getting multiple daily reports about a fake email that appears to be coming from second hand website “2dehands”, but is not. This is a phishing email only intended to obtain your bank details. Forward this e-mail…

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Don't get caught by smishing or fake text messages!

Text messages are used increasingly often to send false links for the purpose of defrauding people. This form of phishing even has a name: smishing, or SMS phishing. Every day we receive new examples of this form of phishing. So always…

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1,700,000 suspicious messages sent to suspicious@safeonweb.be

In 2019, you all sent an impressive 1,700,000 suspicious messages to verdacht@safeonweb.be. This allowed us to block more than 4000 websites.

Thank you 1,700,000 times! Keep on sending them!
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Happy World Password Day!

5 password tips from Safeonweb

Today is World Password Day: the ideal day to get creative and come up with the best passwords ever. Here are 5 tips from Safeonweb.

1. Choose a strong password

A strong password is a long password. Anything over 13 characters is…

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