{"id":1817,"date":"2018-12-17T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2018-12-17T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:06:48","slug":"jason-nurse-features-in-article-in-the-kentish-gazette-on-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/12\/17\/jason-nurse-features-in-article-in-the-kentish-gazette-on-cybercrime\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Nurse features in article in the Kentish Gazette on cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/jrcn\/\">Dr Jason Nurse,<\/a> from the School of Computing, featured in an article in the Kent Gazette on Thursday 13 December on safeguarding yourself against the rise in online crime.<\/p>\n<p>The article looks at some of the elaborate scams fraudsters use to trick unsuspecting victims out of millions of pounds in Kent each year, including a recent \u2018sextortion\u2019 scam which includes users&#8217; real password and claims to have taken over their webcams and accessed their social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Jason commented \u2018The cyber criminals of today use incredibly sophisticated methods. They run it like a proper business and the amounts of money they stand to make are incredible\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The article also looks at how to avoid cybercrime and offers advice from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/\">Get Safe Online<\/a> organisation, a public\/private sector organisation supported by the government and leading organisations in banking, retail, internet security and other sectors, and raises concerns around over sharing on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The full article is available in the Kentish Gazette published on Thursday 13 December and online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kent\/news\/sextortion-scam-warning-195357\/\">www.kentonline.co.uk\/kent\/news\/sextortion-scam-warning-195357\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jason Nurse, from the School of Computing, featured in an article in the Kent Gazette on Thursday 13 December on safeguarding yourself against the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2018\/12\/17\/jason-nurse-features-in-article-in-the-kentish-gazette-on-cybercrime\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[5349,37339,37411,142770,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}