Cybercrime, hacking a worry for SMBs

Cybercrime costs the global economy $445-billion annually, and cyber espionage and stealing personal information is believed to have affected more than 800-million people during 2013. Although the perception of the risk of cybercrime is increasing (9% from 38% in 2011...

Money often gone for good with online fraud

More than half of the South African respondents in a recent survey by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International who lost money in fraudulent online transactions failed to get all – or in some cases, any – of their money back. Although many financial institutions state a...

Preparing for a cyber-attack

Cyber-attacks are a threat to businesses of all types and of all sizes, from the giant enterprises to the smaller SMEs. A popular maxim is that there are two types of companies – those who have been breached, and those who have been breached but don’t know it....

Cybercrime grows, security budgets decline

The number of reported information security incidents around the world rose 48% to 42,8-million – the equivalent of 117 339 attacks per day in 2013. This is according to The Global State of Information Security Survey 2015, released yesterday by PwC in...

Antivirus not enough in the Internet age

Today’s society is always on, always connected – from PCs and notebooks to tablets, smartphones and even smart televisions and other devices – we have become used to accessing the Internet at will, wherever we are, says Fred Mitchell, Symantec division manager,...