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...
Aug 4, 2016
Doros Hadjizenonos, country manager at Check Point Software Technologies South Africa, examines the mobile security implications of the wildly popular mobile augmented-reality game – and how these can be addressed. Pokémon GO has taken one of the biggest...
Aug 2, 2016
Security professionals in South Africa need to protect their enterprise by building resilience. Speaking ahead of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2016 in Cape Town, Tom Scholtz vice president & Gartner Fellow, says resilience is the best approach to address both...
Aug 2, 2016
In today’s world, we are increasingly living digital lives, where we interact and engage with our friends and family online. Social media has become central to our lives, writes Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO at ESET Southern Africa. And yet, while millions use these...
