AI-powered scams and identity attacks the top cyber threats
Cyberlogic warns that organisations must turn employees into a "human firewall" as cybercriminals increasingly target people instead of technology. As organisations continue investing heavily in cybersecurity technologies, attackers are shifting their focus away from...
Quantum is coming. Start preparing now
The global cybersecurity landscape is approaching a turning point as quantum computing accelerates faster than most organisations realise. According to Wessel Pieterse, cybersecurity lead at Accelera Digital Group (ADG), the shift is not a distant, theoretical...
SA is losing billions in security own-goals
South Africa's costly data breaches are potentially knocking at least 1,81% off its annual GDP, representing a series of avoidable own-goals. That’s according to Cube ICT Solutions, which notes the average cost of a data breach is R44-million in South Africa,...
NetScout hits 750th patent milestone
NetScout is celebrating the issuance of its 750th patent. The patent, “Systems and Methods for Performing Computer Network Service Chain Analysis,” issued 24 June 2026, in the UK, is the latest in a portfolio that spans NetScout’s long track record of innovation, from...
Inside the shockingly efficient business models of cyber cartels
The enduring cultural image of the cybercriminal is an unexpectedly persistent myth. For a long time now, pop culture has depicted the threat adversary as a lone, anti-social hacker operating from a dark bedroom, driven by mischief or vague ideological grievances. By...
Passkeys are not the end of passwords – they’re the next evolution of trust
Every few years, the cybersecurity industry declares the death of the password. Yet passwords persist because they solve a simple problem: proving who you are. The challenge is that they do so increasingly poorly in a world where data breaches, phishing attacks, and...
Your attackers may already be inside
Most companies still approach cyber security as if attackers are trying to “break in”. That thinking is outdated, writes John Mc Loughlin, CEO of J2. Modern cyber criminals are not smashing through firewalls wearing hoodies in dark rooms. They are logging in through...
Check Point embeds OpenAI frontier cyber capabilities
Check Point Software Technologies has announced the use of OpenAI's frontier cyber capabilities into its customer-facing defenses. Through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, open to only a select group of security vendors, Check Point can embed OpenAI models...
Property data reveals the spatial patterns of banking fraud
Financial criminals are adept at constructing convincing paper trails. Falsified identity documents, fabricated company registrations, AI-assisted forgeries, and ghost addresses can all fool a KYC process built entirely around records. What they cannot fake is...
When helpful AI tools become a corporate security blind spot
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has quickly evolved from a novelty to a regular tool in the workplace. It helps with tasks like drafting emails, summarising documents, coding, and data analysis. AI-powered platforms are changing how people work, writes...
Video can maximise efficiency and security resilience
Around the world, physical security has begun to play a much broader role in business organisations as opposed to fulfilling a single, well-defined function. By Marcel Bruyns, sales manager for Africa at Axis Communications According to the recently published Axis...
How AI can transform cybersecurity research
In just eight weeks, Cisco scanned 1,8-billion lines of code in over 25 coding languages across the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio, a process that would have taken a world-class security research team eight years to complete. And we are only getting started, writes...