by Dianne Bayley | Jan 6, 2020 | Security and Legal
Ransomware has become big business, generating estimated annual revenues of $1 billion a year for malicious threat actors. The victims of ransomware continue to stack up as criminals develop new, more creative ways to infiltrate IT environments, seize data and hold...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 15, 2019 | Innovation
Patrick Crusius, the El Paso Walmart shooter, was inspired by Brenton Harrison Tarrant, instigator of the 2019 Christchurch massacre, and his 74-page manifesto about “The great replacement” and “white genocide.” Tarrant’s own inspirations were Alexandre Bissonnette of...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 13, 2016 | Security and Legal
The increase in Internet of Things (IoT) deployments means that cyber-security risk is distributed more widely than ever. This is the word from Keagan Ackerman, territory account manager at Eset, who points out that IoT is now being used to control things like light,...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2016 | Features
From IT-Online The massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that occurred in late October 2016 highlighted a fundamental issue concerning the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT): are there enough standards, checks and balances to secure the millions of...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 12, 2016 | Features
By Martin Walshaw, senior engineer, F5 Networks. Anonymous Africa’s recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the SABC and Oakbay Investments aimed to flood the websites of both companies with tons of information, eventually rendering the sites virtually...
