by Dianne Bayley | Feb 19, 2020 | Security and Legal
Bank hackers, email phishing scams and identity theft are synonymous with fraud in the financial sector. According to a statement by the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC), more than R 800 million were lost over the last couple of years in South...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 28, 2020 | Security and Legal
It’s no secret that South Africans are under pressure financially – with a slow economy, increasing electricity and petrol prices and slow wage growth. Many may therefore search for ways to make their savings work harder for them, and in so doing fall prey to...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 13, 2019 | Security and Legal
“We have connected all of our lives — personal, professional and national — to the Internet. That’s where the bad guys will go because that’s where our lives are, our money, our secrets.” Those were the prophetic words of then-FBI director James Comey, in a 2013...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 30, 2019 | Security and Legal
Utility organisations, like other businesses and institutions, depend on computers and software for many operational critical functions, and can be a prime target for cybercriminal activity – especially given the potential damage and destruction that...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 1, 2019 | Security and Legal
By Yogesh Mathur, Vice President for Sales, Telecom and Banking at Gemalto Consider how everyday our use of biometrics is becoming – we’re now using it to log on to our computers and smartphones without batting an eyelid. Many of us have used fingerprints to access...
