How to minimise the security threat

Very few people escape the unpleasant experience of being defrauded at least once in their lifetime, but how you react to it can minimise the damage it causes to your psyche and your wallet. There are many different ways fraudsters can dip into your pockets, and with...

Identity theft: how to avoid an identity crisis

There’s nothing like that sinking feeling you get when you realise you’ve lost your wallet. Usually this isn’t even related to any money that’s in it, but rather the inconvenience of having to cancel all your bank cards and sort out items such...

Understanding ‘bad’ user behaviour

A common maxim today is that a determined enough hacker will eventually get in, usually within minutes. Even more frightening, most of today’s advanced threats remain undetected for weeks or even months. This is presenting huge challenges for the security...

Don’t be a victim of ATM theft this festive season

Many South Africans will be taking it easy during their well-deserved end-of-year holiday, but one portion of the population that will be working as hard as ever-  financial scammers. The festive season is traditionally big business for fraudsters and thieves, because...

New ways to combat BYOD security threats

Employees in many companies are doing more of their work and executing an increasing number of transactions on mobile devices, while making less use of their desktops and notebooks. That trend means that hackers and malware authors are increasingly focusing their...

Commvault defines new challenges

Commvault has identified a series of emerging customer needs facing CIOs and technology and business leaders as they face the challenges of rapidly changing technology, tightening resource requirements, and ever-expanding volumes of data. The company has also outlined...