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...

Protecting the Internet of things

The news has been filled lately with stories on new types of devices being hacked. From GPS, to cars, to baby monitors, all sorts of strange devices are being hacked, and taken over by cybercriminals. In addition, the advent of malware such as Stuxnet and Flame, has...

Counting the real cost of cyber-attacks

The cost, frequency and time to resolve cyber-attacks has risen for the fourth consecutive year, according to Ponemon Institute research for HP Enterprise Security Products. The 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study found that the average annualised cost of cybercrime...

Online fraud victims left high and dry

At least 41% of users who lost their money as the result of financial cyber-fraud failed to get a single cent returned to them. This is according to a Kaspersky consumer security risks survey conducted by B2B International. In theory, even if scammers have managed to...

Lily Collins most dangerous in 2013

Lily Collins, star of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and Mirror, Mirror, has replaced Emma Watson as McAfee’s most dangerous celebrity to search for online. For the seventh year in a row, McAfee researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal the...