Mimecast extends spear phishing protection

Mimecast has announced two new measures designed to protect against spear-phishing. Attachment Protect and user awareness enhancements reduce the threat from malware-laden attachments, and help IT teams improve employee security awareness. They join Mimecast Targeted...

SMEs can protect themselves from tax scams

It is a well-known fact that attackers like to find low-hanging fruit in order to get into an organisation’s juiciest targets. Sometimes this is through outside vendors, other times through phishing of individuals in an organisation that will provide a foothold to get...

Sebata protects local government with Attix5

Sebata is a leading provider of integrated technology solutions, enterprise management systems and multidisciplinary professional services to municipalities, public entities and provincial government.The company provides data backup for local governments’ financial...

Bullying moves from playground to PC

In our fast-paced world of smartphones and always-on connectivity, bullying has taken a quantum leap from the playground to the world of social media, making it harder to track and more complicated to resolve. According to a recent survey by consumer insights company...

Allocating budget for DDoS protection

In an environment rife with rapidly evolving malware, targeted attacks on enterprise and the escalating mobile security problem, defending against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks might not take top priority on the information security manager’s checklist,...