Feb 6, 2014
Microsoft South Africa has issued a warning to local consumers to be cautious of a reoccurring phone scam. Cybercriminals and scammers make use of public phone directories to gather information on consumers, in an effort to convince clients that they can be trusted....
Dec 13, 2013
Distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks can be hugely damaging to businesses that rely on their online presence for sales and new business – and DDoS attacks are undoubtedly on the rise. According to DDoS mitigation provider, Prolexic, the second quarter...
Dec 12, 2013
Christmas is a great time for cybercriminals to take full advantage of online shoppers with new and improved ways of stealing users’ confidential information. While it’s convenient to shop online, it’s also easy to fall victim to an attack – even by visiting a...
Dec 6, 2013
Companies are increasingly falling victim to cyber-attacks, with 91% having suffered an attack at least once in the last year. According to a recent survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 9% of these were the victims of targeted attacks –...
Nov 28, 2013
Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious program that its creators claim can attack “any bank in any country”. The Neverquest Trojan banker supports just about every possible trick used to bypass...
