Reporting Elections, Safety and Security of Journalists journalists were stolen. On Monday evening ‘unknown criminals,’ as the paper put it, broke into the offices and stole ‘vital information and data’ contained in the hard drives, including a laptop belonging to the editor Brian Mangwende.Coincidentally the ‘thieves’ also targeted a computer belonging to Langa, the victim of the army inquiry last week. Source : http://www.zimeye.com/sensitive-data-stolen-in-raid-onnewsday-offices/ Do you know where your computer or mobile device is? Do you know where and what we put on that USB sticks? Software related Risks Malware (for “malicious software”) is any programme or fi le that is harmful to a computer user. Thus, malware includes computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and also spyware, a programming that gathers information about a computer user without permission. Viruses There are many diff erent ways to classify viruses, and each of these methods comes with its own set of colorfullynamed categories. Worms, macroviruses, trojans and backdoors are some of the more well-known examples. Many of these viruses spread over the Internet, using email, malicious webpages or other means to infect unprotected computers. 18 https://zimbabwe.misa.org