Aug 31, 2016
The potential threat posed by cyber-crime is, by now, pretty well understood. What’s less well understood is how to put a strategy in place that is robust and flexible enough to cope with a constantly changing threat landscape and, even more critical, will help...
Aug 30, 2016
Do your shopping habits put you at risk? Are you exposing yourself – and your confidential information – to opportunistic fraudsters? These are questions that online shoppers should be asking themselves says Mark Chirnside, CEO of ThisIsMe, who adds that...
Aug 18, 2016
Technological advances provide more powerful tools in strengthening companies’ defences against fraud, as well as a means for the fraudster to find areas of vulnerability to penetrate, writes Kajen Subramoney: KPMG’s associate director in forensics. As...
Aug 18, 2016
An identity is stolen every 29 seconds in South Africa, and while one may assume that these are solely business cases – in which a couple of accounts were opened and a few thousand lost, the lucrative business of identity theft goes much deeper. “The...
Aug 16, 2016
In the 1996 film “Ransom”, Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson) attempts to retrieve his son from the clutches of a villain, leading a team of FBI agents to heroically save the day. While this film and many others like it cast up images of money arranged neatly in...
Aug 11, 2016
Just because someone says you’ve won a small fortune, or inherited it, doesn’t mean it’s legitimate, writes Sarel Lamprecht, MD of Phishield, a provider of cyber insurance. Have you been offered a part-time job via email, or had someone want to...
