Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 anti-virus, antivirus, Australia, Canada, chat rooms, computer identity, computer protection, facebook, Hong Kong, information theft, korea, malware, New Zealand, Online, Privacy, privacy safeguards, scammers, security, social networking, social networking sites, Software, technology, virus protection
This week is ‘Privacy Awareness Week’ 2010 and as such it is urged that we familiarise ourselves with our rights, obligations and best-practice in relation to privacy. The few recommendations below, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, are related to Computer identity and information theft. They are well worth reading through: Make [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 anti-virus, Australia, commonwealth bank of australia, computer virus infections, computers news, denial of service, dos, goldman sachs, government, government websites, information pirate, information security, it, korea, news limited, personal computers, ping, pirate attacks, security, south korea, south korean government, Trojan
The past ten days has seen three different but equally interesting Information Security alerts. Two involve major financial institutions (Goldman Sachs and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)) and one the South Korean Government. Goldman Sachs: Sergey Aleynikov, a dual US and Russian citizen, is charged with stealing a ‘trading code’ from Goldman Sachs and transferring [...]
