SMBs need to be cyber secure
With headline-grabbing data breaches and high-stake hacks on the rise, earning and maintaining the trust of visitors to one's website is a mounting challenge, especially for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Without big budgets or teams of IT professionals,...
Stay ahead of World Cup cyber threats
Sophos has issued this warning to football fans, reminding them how cybercriminals have used people's interest in the sport to launch cyber attacks. Football has been targeted before by those who want to turn international community events into attacks. It's a sad...
The difference between a data breach and ransomware
It is clear that South African organisations are at risk from the same cyber-attacks that affect major global economies. The cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving in order to get around existing defence mechanisms. Cybercriminals are now using hacking attacks...
How to safeguard personal information
By now, it's well known that the IT systems of insurance giant, Liberty Life, were breached by cybercriminals late on Thursday 14 June. David Munro, CEO of Liberty, had this to say regarding the attack: "It's fair to say an event like this is not something one can...
Securing and regulating IoT
In the data centre, servers, storage and, more recently, networks are highly automated, and the processes are "industrialised". However, in the case of IT security, point solutions and manual work still seem to prevail. Simon Bryden, consulting systems engineer at...
How to protect your kids online
Children know how to play online games, get updates on their favorite celebrities, find the latest music hits, chat with their equally tech-savvy peers, or ask the Internet for answers to their questions that they might be too embarrassed to ask others. However,...
Integrated security ensures peace of mind
In today's world, security threats can come from anywhere, be it cybercriminals looking to attack your business' data, intruders targeting physical hardware, or even internal employees haplessly giving away company secrets or letting unauthorised people into your...
Kaspersky, Pilsner Urquell brewer aim to secure beverage industry
Kaspersky Lab and and Plzensky Prazdroj have announced the successful completion of a cybersecurity partnership to improve the overall industrial security posture of the brewery. Kaspersky Lab was engaged by the world-famous brewery, known for producing Pilsner...
What are African children accessing online?
A Kaspersky Lab report on the online activities of children - based on statistics received from its solutions and modules with child protection features - highlights children's online activities and the importance of protecting them when online. For example, video...
Adaptability, awareness key to preventing cyber-attacks
Cybersecurity was a massive concern for most organisations in 2017 and looks to continue to be a headache for CIOs in 2018. By Paul Jolliffe, lead DSM: security at T-Systems South Africa Symantec recently released their cybersecurity predictions for 2018, listing the...
F-Secure acquires MWR InfoSecurity
F-Secure has signed an agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of MWR InfoSecurity, a privately held cyber security company operating globally from its main offices in the UK, the US, South Africa and Singapore. The acquisition is a significant milestone in...
Sophos makes email security smarter
Sophos Email Advanced claims to be the first email protection solution to offer predictive security with active threat protection (ATP), anti-phishing email authentication, and outbound scanning and policy support. SophosLabs research discovered that 75% of malware in...