POPI regulator could mitigate cybercrime

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...

Why you need to insure against cybercrime

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...

Nations up their cyber-espionage game

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...

Europol takes down cybercriminal servers

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....

Mitigating zero-day threats

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...