Apr 22, 2015
Approximately one fifth of users locally assume their passwords are of no value to cybercriminals, according to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. However, passwords are the keys to the account holders’ personal data, private lives, and even...
Apr 21, 2015
IBM is making its vast library of security intelligence data available via the IBM X-Force Exchange, a new cyber-threat intelligence sharing platform powered by IBM Cloud. This collaborative platform provides access to volumes of actionable IBM and third-party threat...
Apr 15, 2015
Recent findings from researchers from TrendLabs, the research arm of Trend Micro, have highlighted that the top three financial malware families affecting South Africans are Swisyn, Dorkbot and Zeus/Zbot. Malware is a mechanism by which third parties can gain access...
Apr 9, 2015
Over the last 20 years endpoint security has altered fundamentally in many ways mirroring the evolution of the wider information security market, says Gregory Anderson, country manager at Trend Micro South Africa. From the basic anti-malware scanners of the ‘90s to...
Apr 7, 2015
Cybercrime is age-old trickery with a lethal digital revamp. Nowhere is this more evident than with ransomware. As the name suggests, ransomware describes malicious software that takes your data and holds it for ransom. In SA the most common form (or flavour) of this...
