Addressing the evolving cybercrime threat
Cybercrime is costing businesses, and not just in terms of the bottom line. Compliance infringement is hugely expensive, made doubly so by the fact that compliance is hard to achieve, as many data breaches can be due to third party blunders. It is also quite a...
Fighting today’s targeted attacks
Until three years ago, cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure were considered hypothetical at best. Then along came Stuxnet, changing the threat landscape for good. The idea of weaponised malware had moved from theory into practice - for governments around the...
Use failures to boost security
With the South African government’s recent inauguration of the National Cyber Security Advisory Council (NCAC) – higher emphasis has now been placed on the issue of cyber security threats, says Doros Hadjizenonos, sales manager at Check Point South Africa. We’ve all...
Kaspersky launches free Web browsing app
Kaspersky Lab is pleased to announce the release of a new free app to ensure users are safe while surfing the Web on their iPhone and iPad devices. The new Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS is now available from the Apple App Store. Like any Internet user, iPhone and...
eScan awarded AV-Test certification
eScan has been awarded the latest AV-Test certification for their latest Home user product, eScan Internet Security Suite with Cloud Security, for the tests conducted in July and August 2013. The AV-TEST Award acknowledges supportive and effective antivirus products...
Losing the fight against malware
Cyber attacks are growing in frequency and sophistication. Traditional security systems and protocols are no longer successfully protecting businesses against cyber-attacks. Governments, organisations and industry need to come together to formulate a new approach to...
McAfee announces SIEM solution
McAfee has announced the industry’s first “endpoint aware” security information event management (SIEM) solution that adds realtime system state information to enhance situational awareness and streamline incident response. This innovative solution brings together big...
App-unaware firewalls put data at risk
The world has gone app mad. Companies are rolling-out enterprise applications to drive productivity and make employees’ work easier, and employees have embraced, with open arms, a stunning array of apps to support their lifestyles. These personal Web-based apps are...
Britehouse to host group hackathon
The Britehouse Group will be hosting an internal hackathon on 1 November, which is the first event to kick off the Britehouse’s Innovations Factory. The objective is to encourage collaboration, innovation and creation of customer solutions across the different...
Bytes SI boosts biometric security
Passwords are vulnerable because people tend to forget them, share them or write them down to remember. They are easy to decode and people often use personal information in the passwords, making it even easier to break them if the attacker has any knowledge of the...
Experian to acquire 41st Parameter
Experian has announced a definitive agreement to acquire 41st Parameter, the market leader in device identification technology and web fraud detection. 41st Parameter will strengthen Experian’s global web fraud detection and risk-based identity authentication...
Can South Africa stop cybercrime?
Worldwide, cybercrime is reaching astronomical proportions, from threats such as cyber-espionage and industrial espionage, to the chronic problem of malware and phishing. In the past year, there has been a spate of attacks on companies in the USA, including gas...