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.

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