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Cybersecurity: Emerging challenges and solutions for the boards of financial-services companies

November 9, 2020

Hospital operator is the third major South African company to be targeted by hackers this year....

Will Garmin Pay $10 Million Ransom To End Two-Day Outage?

July 25, 2020

Hospital operator is the third major South African company to be targeted by hackers this year....

Life Healthcare hit by cyber attack

June 10, 2020

Hospital operator is the third major South African company to be targeted by hackers this year....

SA number three on world list of most cybercrime victims

May 29, 2020

SA has third-highest number of cybercrime victims in the world with about R2.2bn lost each year through fraudulent activities carried via the internet, according to professional services company Accenture....

List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2019 – 627 million records breached

January 6, 2020

The new year – and new decade – is underway, but before saying goodbye to 2019, we have one more monthly round-up to get to. December saw 90 disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, with 627,486,696 records being compromised. That’s about a third of the average monthly total, although the number of incidents has climbed steadily throughout the year....

Cybersecurity Is Critical for all Organizations – Large and Small

November 8, 2019

In today’s computerized world, new risks emerge every hour of every day. Connecting to the Internet opens up the possibility of a hacker targeting your organization. Cybercrime is becoming big business and cyber risk a focus of organizations and governments globally....

The massive DDoS attack that won’t stop – Cool Ideas’ nightmare

September 26, 2019

At 13:30 on Saturday, 21 September, Cool Ideas’ networking team started receiving alerts. They were under attack and their DDoS mitigation had kicked in. Their network had been brought to its knees by a similar attack just ten days ago, so they watched closely to make sure their new defences held....

Nation-State APTs Target U.S. Utilities With Dangerous Malware

August 8, 2019

Researchers believe that nation-state actors are behind several spearphishing campaigns targeting U.S. utility companies with a newly-identified malware, which has the capabilities to view system data and reboot machines....

Ransomware attack leaves Joburg residents unable to buy electricity

July 25, 2019

City Power confirmed on Twitter this morning that it has been hit by a ransomware attack which compromised its web server, databases, applications, and network. Ransomware encrypts everything it can reach from the victim’s machine and holds the information hostage, usually demanding a Bitcoin payment from the victim for the private key needed to decrypt the information....

More than 25 million Android devices infected with ‘Agent Smith’ malware

July 11, 2019

PSA: Security researchers have discovered a new malware infecting more than 25 million Android devices. Dubbed “Agent Smith,” the code makes its way on to a device through sketchy apps and then disguises itself as a Google-related application....

Hacker Lexicon: What is Credential Dumping?

July 11, 2019

DESPITE ALL THE cybersecurity industry’s talk of preventing “breaches,” a computer network in some ways is less like a fortress and more like a human body. And skillful hackers are like germs: They tend to get in via some orifice or another. Once inside, it’s whether they can thrive and multiply their infections—and what vital organs they can reach—that determines...