Sunday, December 8, 2013

Popi arms you against info thieves

<p>If governments are heavily invested in developing spyware to gather information about their citizens, imagine what cybercrooks are doing to get hold of your personal information and how they might use it.</p><p>"Information leaked to the media by Edward Snowden, a former employee of the [United States] National Security Agency, shows that nation states with significant personnel and technical resources at their disposal invest heavily in cyber malware," says Anna Collard, director of Popcorn Training, a company that promotes awareness about information security, at a recent meeting of the Acsis/Personal Finance Financial Planning Club.</p><p>Snowden has claimed that the US and Israel co-wrote the Stuxnet virus, a worm that targeted Siemens software used to control the operations of nuclear power plants, Collard says.</p><p>"It's believed to have been created to attack Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010, and apparently infected a nuclear power plant in Russia this year," she says.</p><p><a href="http://www.iol.co.za/business/personal-finance/popi-arms-you-against-info-thieves-1.1618414">Keep reading...</a></p>

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