Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Go online and know your enemies

Forewarned is forearmed when it comes to cyber threats, writes Julia Talevski.

Cyber criminals accrue more than $US100 billion ($115 billion) a year, it was revealed at an Australian High Tech Crime Conference. Bank account details and identities on social networking sites are fair game and hackers will use any means necessary to obtain them. This includes exploiting everything from the latest trendy topic on the internet to the latest disasters, such as the earthquake in Haiti. Learning about the kinds of threats is the first step towards ensuring your data stays safe.


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Real advice on actually securing computers in the real world not magical plans to protect us from nasty porn so we can all be good christians while online.

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