by Dianne Bayley | Nov 4, 2019 | Security and Legal
Cybersecurity threats are an unfortunate reality for everyone, as the City of Johannesburg and the top five South African banks can testify. In today’s connected world, every digital device is a potential vulnerability point but at the same time, organisations need to...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 24, 2019 | Sustainability
South African needs its small and medium enterprises to succeed, says Greg Chen, CEO and co-founder of Mobiz, noting that SMEs are the key to unlocking inclusive growth in an economy that has stagnated for the best part of a decade. While government obviously has a...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 10, 2019 | Security and Legal
Investec Private Banking notes that our perception of “hackers” is a far cry from the sophisticated career criminals we see in real life, and it is this disparity that makes cybercrime so difficult to guard against as people don’t understand their motivations, so...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 2, 2019 | Security and Legal
Email attacks are cheap, easy, low risk and high reward and based, on the recently launched 2019 State of Email Security Report, they are on the rise: 53% of South African companies saw an increase in phishing attacks containing malicious links or attachments in the...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 10, 2019 | Security and Legal
The conventional wisdom with malware is that you can kill it once and for all by wiping a system and starting from scratch. However, a particularly clever piece of surveillance software with Russian ties appears much more resistant. Even replacing drives won’t kill...