Support site for victims of cybercrime set to close

Date: August 13, 2010


Source: Dinah Greek, Computeractive

By: Dinah Greek



An independent organisation set up three years ago to help the victims of online crime will close next month due to lack of funds.
Over the years E-Victims has grown substantially and attracted support from individuals such as Lord Errol, privacy expert Dr Richard Clayton and Peter Robbins of the Internet Watch Foundation, but the organisers felt they could not sustain and develop the website as was needed.

Jennifer Perry, E-Victims’ founder said: “Having worked with thousands of victims, I can say that the advice and expertise E-Victims.Org offered is needed more than ever.
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Apple devices are vulnerable to attack, say German security officials

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Date: August 06, 2010
Source: Guardian.co.uk
By: Josh Halliday


Several Apple devices including the iPhone and iPad have two critical security weaknesses for which no patch exists, the German government warned last night.
Users of Apple mobile devices should only use websites they deem trustworthy and refrain from opening PDF files until Apple releases a fix, Germany's federal office for information security said..........
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