With an increase in the use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) to stay in contact with people we know there has also been an increase in the use of social media by the criminal fraternity to find their next victim.
Many people post on social media when they are going on holiday, out for an evening or away for a weekend, this tells potential burglars when your home is going to be vacant and when it will be easy to target.
To protect yourself on social media we advise doing the following:
- Search online for yourself to find out what information is readily available to people.
- Check each others social networking sites privacy settings.
- Set your accounts privacy controls to private and be wary of friends of friends permission settings, this setting widens the amount of people that can access your information.
- Check which online applications have access to your private data.
- Be wary of friends requests from people you have never met.
- Limit what you publish - such as new purchases, photos of your jewellery, when you are away etc.
Research has been shown that there are a set of security actions which can help to provide up to 50 times more protection for your home versus no security.
This has been recommended by police throughout the country.
Here is how you can hep to protect your home:
WINDOWS - Lock all of your w ...
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Large community
and religious WhatsApp groups are being targeted by scammers who infiltrate
them to try and deceive their members into sending them money. Since
January of this year, 268 people have r ...
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Members of the public should always remain alert to the danger of terrorism and report any suspicious activity to the police on 999 or the anti-terrorist hotline: 0800 789 321. If your information does not relate to an imminent threat, you can also contact M ...
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PHX Security hope you had a very Merry Christmas and wish you a healthy and happy new year!
A lot has changed at PHX HQ and continues to change over the coming few months.
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