Recession drives increase in job-themed scams

The current economic climate globally is grim because of the ongoing recession. In this environment, job-themed emails have become a prime target for cybercriminals looking to exploit vulnerable individuals. Daksh Kapur, cybersecurity research scientist at Trellix,...

African banks need to reimagine payments

The rising demand for electronic payments is creating fundamental shifts across Africa and making significant inroads in promoting financial inclusion. A rapidly changing landscape and disruptions mean that incumbent banks need to take radical and concerted action to...

Data breaches are top executive concern

New data from Mimecast shows that South African organisations are increasingly under fire from the threat of phishing, ransomware and spoofing attacks, pushing cybersecurity to the top of corporate leaders’ agenda. According to the Mimecast State of Email...

Half of cybersecurity leaders will change jobs by 2025

By 2025, nearly half of cybersecurity leaders will change jobs – 25% for different roles entirely due to multiple work-related stressors, according to Gartner. “Cybersecurity professionals are facing unsustainable levels of stress,” says Deepti...

2022 saw mobile banking Trojan installers double

In 2022, Kaspersky experts discovered nearly 200 000 new mobile banking Trojans, marking a two-fold increase from the previous year’s figures. This surge in the number of mobile banking Trojans is also the highest ever reported in the last six years. These and...

Merged Huge TNS opens its doors

Huge Group announced in October 2022 its intention to combine Huge Telecom and Huge Networks into a single and significantly enlarged telecommunications, networks and services business. The combining of the two businesses will commence on 1 March 2023. The new entity...