Apr 18, 2016
Over the last several months, the BBC, the New York Times, and other major news and commercial websites became victims of malvertising attacks, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, country manager of Check Point South Africa What exactly is malvertising? To understand this type...
Apr 15, 2016
A couple of years ago, the security industry claimed the anti-virus industry was dead. This isn’t strictly true. On one side, pure anti-virus companies do not exist any longer, but instead of security companies limiting themselves to a single, traditional...
Apr 13, 2016
One of the largest online security threats to individuals and businesses today doesn’t come from new sophisticated malware tools, but rather from distinctly low-tech phishing and whaling campaigns, writes Simeon Tassev, director and QSA at Galix Networking. A...
Apr 12, 2016
As more and more banks migrate banking services to mobile, enterprising and sophisticated (often globalised) criminal networks have devised ever ingenious ways to use mobile phones to separate customers from their money. This is according to Tjaart van der Walt,...
Apr 8, 2016
There is and always has been an inherent tension between an individual’s right to data privacy and wider security concerns, writes Aleks Gostev, chief security expert: GReAT at Kaspersky Lab. This is unlikely to change, although the priority may shift depending...
Apr 6, 2016
The past few years have seen a flood of breaches and hacks littering the headlines around the world. While a big fuss has been made about cyber-security in the wake of these events, there has been little noise about security within the business. The insider threat...
