by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2020 | Security and Legal
In June, the US Secret Service issued a security alert warning about an increase in hacks of managed service providers (MSPs), write Jurgen Sorton, Head of IT – MIT and Barry Kemp, Head of IaaS at Vox . Almost a year earlier, media reports highlighted what was...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 24, 2020 | Security and Legal
The turmoil experienced in 2020 will bring along many structural and strategic changes, not just in our daily lives but in the realm of targeted attacks too – not in the least due to the now-broadened attack surface. New attack vectors, such as the targeting of...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 23, 2020 | Security and Legal
More companies are falling victim to ransomware attacks, with a large South African healthcare group becoming a target last week. While attacks on larger corporations are the ones that hit the news, small and medium sized businesses are also falling prey. They just...
by Dianne Bayley | May 4, 2020 | Security and Legal
According to multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider Kaspersky Lab, it detected over 120 000 ransomware attacks in SA in 2019, writes Lukas van der Merwe, Specialist Sales Executive: Security, T-Systems South Africa. The figure for the first two months of...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 23, 2020 | Featured Articles, Features
When there is a crisis, there are those who will try and take advantage, writes Indi Siriniwasa, Vice President at Trend Micro Sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, cybercriminals aren’t guided by the same moral compass as the rest of humanity. In fact, they are...
