Supporting National E-Security Awareness Week

Once again, this year we're proud to partner with the Australian Government for National E-security Awareness Week, between 5–12 June 2009. We share a commitment to helping you secure yourself and your information on the internet.

The week is designed to raise awareness of the steps that you can take to keep yourself and your family secure online. If you do nothing else all week, stop for a moment to come up with a better, stronger password for your personal online accounts and transactions.

For advice on passwords, and other e-security information, go to www.staysmartonline.gov.au



Google has a large number of initiatives to help keep you and your computer secure (many of which are detailed on our official Online Security Blog and Australian Google Safety Tips Page). For example:

In conjunction with Stop Badware.org, we place warnings in our search results for websites that our testing has determined to host or distribute badware. If you search for a site that Google has determined to be potentially dangerous, you will see a warning in the search results.

Earlier this year we launched the Australian Safety Centre on YouTube, containing straightforward online safety tips and resources from experts and prominent Australian safety organisations including Bravehearts, Reach Out, Kids Helpline, NetAlert.gov.au and Cybersmart Kids Online.

We offer all Australians a free collection of software (Google Pack), which contains Norton Security Scan and Spyware Doctor Starter Edition, to detect and remove viruses, worms, spyware, adware, trojans and keyloggers.

Posted by Iarla Flynn, senior public policy manager Australia