Mar 27, 2015
Fast tracking the appointment of the POPI Information Regulator could help increase disclosure and dialogue around cyber security, says Jonas Thulin, security specialist at Fortinet. Cybercrime is escalating globally, and South African organisations are targeted as...
Mar 20, 2015
The need for businesses to ensure that they are adequately protected from cybercrime has been highlighted once again, as a Gemalto Breach Level Index reveals that 2014 saw 974-million records lost or stolen – or 31 records lost or stolen every second. Candice...
Mar 13, 2015
Nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage attacks are becoming more sophisticated, targeting carefully defined users with complex, modular tools, and keeping well under the radar of increasingly effective detection systems, Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered. This new...
Feb 26, 2015
European law enforcement agencies yesterday seized computer servers used by cybercriminals to infect hundreds of thousands of computers around the world with malware designed to steal personal and financial information, as well as money, from unsuspecting consumers....
Feb 26, 2015
Zero-day exploits, which take advantage of a security vulnerability on the same day that the vulnerability becomes generally known, have long been a thorn in security practitioners’ sides. These attacks happen quickly, before the vendor or security community as a...