Credence Security, NetClean highlight child sexual abuse
With April being Child Abuse Awareness Month, businesses in South Africa should more than ever be doing their bit to combat the scourge of child abuse images on the Web. The vast majority of companies around the world and locally have tools and technologies in place...
Data security on and offline
To keep up with technology and improve efficiencies, companies are constantly replacing outdated IT equipment. However, this creates a challenge as large amounts of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. The problem with IT asset disposal...
Gemalto’s SDK gets ANSSI certification
Gemalto's Ezio Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK), has achieved security certification from the well-recognised ANSSI governmental agency for network and information security. Ezio Mobile SDK acts as an extra layer of security and is a simple, comprehensive and...
10 steps to protect against ransomware
If you've been listening to the news at all the past couple of weeks, you have undoubtedly heard of a number of companies being affected by ransomware, writes Paul Williams, major account manager at Fortinet. The recent surge in this form of cyber attack has many...
SSL: The unchecked security blind spot
When changing lanes on the highway, you would first indicate to make other drivers aware of your intentions and then check your blind spot to make sure it was safe to switch lanes, writes Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. Those safety measures, which...
Malvertising: when advertising becomes dangerous
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...
Dell tackles remote workforce challenges
Dell has announced updates to the SonicWALL Secure Mobile Access (SMA) operating system (OS) that provide remote workers using smartphones, tablets or laptops - managed or unmanaged - with policy-enforced SSL VPN access to mission-critical applications, data and...
Kaspersky launches anti-ad app for iOS
Kaspersky Lab has presented a new application for iOS called AdCleaner - a free extension for Safari that automatically blocks advertising banners, links and popup windows in web pages opened by the user. This makes using the mobile browser easier and more secure....
A look at the 2016 security landscape
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 anti-virus...
Protect your big phish from whaling attacks
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 recent...
How is banking fraud committed?
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,...
Issues around WhatsApp end-to-end encryption
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 on the...