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Tips & Tricks: activate emergency features on your child’s Android device

Sep 20, 2019

Child security has never been a bigger conversation or requirement. Use these hacks to give your kids an extra security boost when they’re away. Worrying about your kids comes standard with the parenting package, along with school fees, a lack of sleep and unopened...

Mobile users unaware of cyber threats

Mar 24, 2015

Mobile devices are more popular than ever, but their owners still underestimate the danger they may face from cybercriminals, with 28% of global users knowing nothing or very little about mobile malware. This is according to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. The survey shows that in South Africa, only 58% of Android-based smartphones and 61% of Android tablets are protected by an anti-virus solution, while 33% of smartphones and 40% of tablets locally are not even password-protected.

Fraud awareness in education vital

Nov 7, 2014

Fraud knowledge is essential in combatting wasteful expenditure in the education sector, which, according to a 2013 report by Corruption Watch, a civil society watchdog, accounts for as much as R3,3-billion of R30-billion of wasteful expenditure lost annually by the...

Awareness key to avoiding cyber-attacks

May 16, 2014

Check Point Software’s 2014 Security Report has uncovered the major threat trends that impacted organisations across the world. In a world of ever-changing cyber threats, organisations must understand the nature of the latest exploits, and how their networks are...

Raising awareness of fraud and its impact

Nov 7, 2013

Organisations lose an estimated 5% of their annual revenues to fraud, according to a 2012 study by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). To help shine a spotlight on this global problem, Bytes Universal Systems, as a corporate sponsor of ACFE South...