by Dianne Bayley | Jul 6, 2022 | Security and Legal
The world of decentralised finance (DeFi) is defined by interesting projects, varied cryptocurrencies, blockchains, financial innovations and promises of wealth and digital freedom. It is also populated by the type of people and organisations that usually hang around...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2021 | Security and Legal
About 140 resellers and technology service providers have fallen victim to Nobelium, the alleged Russian state actor behind the SolarWinds Orion cyberattacks, since May 2021. The Nobelium attacks are believed to use password spray and phishing to steal credentials and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 10, 2021 | Security and Legal
While blended cybersecurity threats are not new, they are fairly sophisticated and multi-staged in nature, meaning that they are difficult to protect against and can pose a considerable threat to organisations’ IT environments. A blended threat typically uses and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 15, 2021 | Security and Legal
Distributed denial of services (DDoS) traffic has more than doubled in volume between January 2020 and May 2021, according to the Nokia Deepfield’s DDoS traffic analysis, which examined service provider network traffic encompassing thousands of routers on the...
by Dianne Bayley | May 9, 2021 | Security and Legal
South Africa has quickly migrated to remote working and digital business on account of Covid-19 and consequently instances of cybercrime are exploding. Data leaks, demanding money from hacked businesses, identity theft and fraudulent financial losses are becoming so...