Staying clued up on the various types of cyber-attacks and knowing how to shield yourself from them is essential in today’s fast-paced world.
With a number of digital banks looking to inject new life into South Africa’s banking scene, the question of cybersecurity is once again front and centre.
If your employees are using various devices within the office, they might be the security threat that you never thought of. Here’s what to do about that situation.
If you have yet to realise that cybercrime is a pretty concerning threat to many businesses – and individuals – then it’s about time you read this.
A London court official called it a “politically motivated attack” driven by “anger and resentment” on the part of the knife-wielding ‘incel’.
Today we all rely on computers and digital services. We use them for personal things, socializing, communicating, learning, and work, and online services are constantly getting better and more personalized.
It takes a lot of time and planning to execute a cyber heist as big as what the world witnessed in 2016 in Bangladesh Central Bank.
From hacking and email phishing to companies gaining personal information due to outdated security certificates, cybercrime is very real in this day and age.
Cybercriminals are lurking around every virtual corner, actively searching for opportunities to steal, scam, and stir trouble.
A Durban man spent months being targetted by an anonymous online harasser, who made his daily life hell. Turns out his tormentor wasn’t very far away.
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday taking place in the middle of a pandemic, online shopping is significantly more popular this year.
Parliament’s Justice Committee adopted the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill last week, which means that you could end up in jail if you contravene a few laws.
Computer systems all over the world were attacked by malicious software this past weekend, and it could have all been avoided so easily.
Cybercrime is damn scary – but if you thought you had heard the worst of it, what with people spying on you through your computer’s camera or your family finding out you are having an affair via a mass data leak, you have no idea.
If this story, detailing one of the biggest DDoS attacks in the States, doesn’t influence you to get on that cybersecurity, I don’t know what will.
Cybercrime is now something we should all be a little worries about, but it seems the government aren’t really pulling their weight at all.
Generally, it’s the IT sector of a company blamed for inadequate protection against cybercrime. Now that blame is shifting to the boardroom.
We’ve all dreamt of the ATM machine malfunctioning and spewing out notes like there’s no tomorrow. One gang of cyber-criminals are living that dream, for now at least.
Thanks for nothing, cyber criminals. There goes our chance to pirate enough content to make it through Easter. Internet users around the globe have been subjected to slower internet speeds over the past week due to a global cyberattack. That was not a line from a Tom Clancy novel. This particular cyberattack is the biggest […]
Everyone knows that if you visit a site that’s a little dodgy, the chances are you’re going to end up downloading something dodgy, probably without your knowledge. Internet security company McAfee has just released its list of celebrities most likely to be used as a bait-and-switch, and Emma Watson is top of the list.
NBC and Google are planning for the Olympic games to be the largest-ever online offering of a sporting event. The aim is for the games to have 3 500 hours of live streaming footage. Google and NBC are staging “war games” in at least three countries to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction.
The Space Agency commended the hacker for spotting the flaw while also recognising his contributions as an “independent security researcher.”
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Research points out that as Valentine’s Day approaches, dodgy activity on dating apps and websites surges, which means there’s a heightened risk of falling victim to scams.
The group said many of the individuals responsible for our country’s safety didn’t even understand how servers worked and were simply concerned with whether their laptops had been hacked.
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Known for starting McAfee Antivirus, ‘Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee’ unpacks the eccentric man’s escape from Belize in the Caribbean after being implicated in the murder of neighbour, Gregory Faull.
Viruses work in much the same way as any other application on your computer. The key distinction is the program’s purpose and what the software has been written to perform.
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