by Dianne Bayley | Sep 18, 2017 | Security and Legal
This year has proved to be a lucrative year for cybercrime as prominent malware and attack methods continue to evolve, creatively bypassing existing security solutions, says Check Point in its mid-year report. In 2016, we witnessed sophisticated new malware emerging...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 3, 2017 | Security and Legal
Businesses and governments need to completely change their thinking in terms of cybersecurity and start planning their controls around the paradigm of guaranteed failure against attacks. So says Michiel Jonker, director: IT Advisory at Grant Thornton, who adds: “A...
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 | Jul 12, 2016 | Security and Legal
By Perry Hutton, Regional vice president – Fortinet Africa High-performance cybersecurity solutions company Fortinet says almost 80% of industrial security incidents in critical infrastructure organisations are caused by unintentional internal issues such as...
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...
