How biometrics has become lightning fast and accurate
How do you do trust someone you can't meet in person? It's a question organisations have been grappling with in the age of the internet, KYC requirements, and the rapidly escalating costs and consequences of identity fraud. "Enter biometrics with liveness detection, a...
Should you really have a password if you can’t keep it secure?
Since 2013, the first Thursday in May - this year falling on 5 May - is marked as World Password Day, aiming to promote better cybersecurity hygiene by upgrading easy-to-guess passwords or refreshing older passwords that may have been compromised. By Doros...
Cryptocurrency scams are on the rise in SA
The digital gold rush is here. As more people attempt to make money from cryptocurrencies, criminals and con artists aren't far behind. Make sure you know how to recognise the biggest schemes that want to part you from your digital coins. By Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO...
Why it is critical to have a robust cyber security strategy
The need for a solid cyber security strategy is constantly discussed and debated. Yet the basic worm-type attacks first documented in 1972 are still with us today. This is because even the most basic measures to protect control systems from these types of attacks are...
Face value: the ethics of facial recognition biometrics
The average person has a whopping 100 passwords that they use to access their various online accounts, a study by NordPass reveals. With the key to keeping all these accounts secure, being passwords that are long, complicated and hard to guess, the result is that they...
Ransomware reaches new, dangerous levels of sophistication
Once a niche criminal enterprise, ransomware has become big business, complete with R&D departments and sales and marketing divisions. The deeply layered onion that is today's ransomware attack landscape has been wreaking havoc in large enterprises in South Africa...
Financial firms increasingly targeted by cybercriminals
Despite South African financial institutions imposing strict security measures, cybercrime in the local financial sector is set to spike with costly ransomware attacks predicted to increase. This is according to Deon Smal, CEO of Cyber Insight, who says many...
SDS diversifies with command and control centre
SDS Protection has installed an integrated command and control centre as part of an expansion strategy that will see the company diversify into new market segments and deliver a broader range of intelligence-based security and off-site monitoring solutions. The...
AURA and FNB partner to keep customers safe
FNB banking customers can now access instant emergency response services, anywhere, anytime via the FNB banking app. Powered by South Africa's leading security and medical response marketplace, AURA, the in-app panic button, GuardMe, is available to all FNB customers...
Act now: data breaches in SA are on the rise
Almost nine in 10 organisations in South Africa have suffered a ransomware attack, with a third of the data unable to be recovered. By Chris Norton, regional director: Africa at Veeam Software High-profile data breaches always grab the headlines, but often the damage...
Zero time; zero tolerance; zero-day
In 2021, zero-day attacks smashed through previous records according to researchers and experts interviewed by MIT Technology Review. By Stephen Osler, co-founder and business development director at Nclose The total number of zero-day exploits discovered in 2021 was...
Keep your smart home devices out of the hands of hackers
In an increasingly connected world, it's becoming harder to find a home that doesn't have at least one smart device. In fact, research shows that, by 2026, there will be three million smart homes in South Africa. Whether it's a smart TV, a smart plug that lets you...