Jan 23, 2015
The South African 2014 cybercrime losses are estimated at R5,8-billion, and statistics show it takes on average 200 days for an organisation to identify a breach, writes Candice Sutherland: business development consultant at SHA Specialist Underwriters. In light of...
Jan 22, 2015
Distributed denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are back in the news; it seems that barely a month goes by without media reports of a Web site or service being brought down by a DDoS attack. Sony’s PlayStation Network again became the victim of such an attack recently,...
Dec 11, 2014
Sony Pictures is using typical hacker tactics in an attempt to prevent compromised information from being downloaded. The information was lost in hacker attack on the Sony systems a couple of weeks ago and has now been made available for download. The data includes...
Oct 3, 2014
At least 90% of CIOs and CTOs believe the job of keeping the enterprise protected is more challenging than ever before. According to new research from Fortinet, serious boardroom pressure to keep the enterprise secure has jumped almost one-third in the last 12 months,...
Aug 18, 2014
“Pay up or we’ll take your Web site down.” So goes the adage that usually accompanies ransom-based cyber-attacks, says Bryan Hamman, territory manager – sub-Saharan Africa at Arbor Networks. Top of the news agenda in recent weeks, well-known names...
