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August 24, 2016 •
Online & Social, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Are South Africans doing enough to secure their online identities?
Do your shopping habits put you at risk? Are you exposing yourself – and your confidential information – to opportunistic fraudsters? These are questions that online shoppers should be asking themselves says Mark Chirnside, CEO of ThisIsMe, who...
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August 19, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Corporate cyberattacks will continue to rise
Cyberattacks targeted at the corporate world continue to be on the increase. Terms like cyber espionage and corporate hacktivists are being thrown around over many boardroom tables these days, with decision makers expressing massive concern. The reality is...
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August 11, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Gartner: Worldwide information security spending is growing
Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach $81.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 7.9 percent over 2015, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Consulting and IT outsourcing are currently the largest categories of...
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August 5, 2016 •
Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Cyber-security needs to move from hopeful attempts at outright prevention
The recent high-profile credit card fraud suffered by one of South Africa’s major banks, which netted hundreds of millions of rand, has once again thrust cyber-security into the spotlight. In the modern digital world, the threat landscape is rapidly...
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August 2, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Rio Olympics 2016: The safe way to obtain tickets online
This year is the year of sporting fans. Especially over the last few months, they had the opportunity to move from one big sporting event to the next with few gaps between them. Sports fans enjoyed a full month of football during European championship,...
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July 28, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Talent shortage crisis impacts cybersecurity industry globally
Intel Security has released Hacking the Talent Shortage, a global report outlining the talent shortage crisis impacting the cybersecurity industry across both companies and nations. With a majority (82 percent) of respondents admitting to a shortage of...
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July 27, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Achieving the right cybersecurity balance
A worldwide explosion of apps and ecommerce sites has created a disjointed control over data that is shared between organisations, leading to security breaches. Furthermore, personal information disclosed on social platforms and via unsecured channels has...
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July 25, 2016 •
East Africa, North Africa, Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Downgrading your IT security is false budgeting warns Intel’s Coetzee
It is often instinctive for business managers to look for means of cost-cutting in times of economic downturn or uncertainty, but downgrading your security solutions is a false economy that may cost business much more in the long run, warns Trevor Coetzee,...
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July 15, 2016 •
Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Data leak dangers: Know your weak spots
From customer credit card details that ease the flow at online checkouts to employee records that are vital to HR departments, today’s businesses are built on sensitive data. In many ways, it’s the lifeblood that makes the modern company tick. If...
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July 6, 2016 •
Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on 8.8 Million South Africans have fallen victim to cybercrime
Norton by Symantec has released its findings from the Norton Cybersecurity Insights Report revealing that despite growing concerns over online crime, over 8.8 million South Africans fell victim to it in the past year. Surveying more than 18,000 consumers...
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June 23, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Crypto-ransomware attacks to hit thousands of users in one year
The number of users attacked with encryption ransomware is soaring, with 718,536 users hit between April 2015 and March 2016: an increase of 5.5 times compared to the same period in 2014-2015. The irreversible consequences of this kind of malware infection,...
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June 21, 2016 •
East Africa, North Africa, Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on 75 percent of organisations are at significant risk of cyber incidents
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, has released data demonstrating that organisations that invest in detection and response technologies, rather than perimeter-based solutions, are better poised to defend against cyber incidents. The second annual RSA...
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June 14, 2016 •
East Africa, North Africa, Opinion, Security, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Cyber-security is a business issue, not an IT issue
Some have said, only half-jokingly, that an innovation only gets the investment they need to be perfected once the arms industry has seen a need for it. More worryingly, there is now good evidence that much of the innovation is being driven by increasingly...
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June 7, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
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Some of you may remember a time when national security was a question of police officers protecting individuals from crime on the street, or the army’s defence against international threats. Today, that picture looks very different. If anything, it is more...
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May 23, 2016 •
Opinion, Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Understanding the risk and cost of a DDoS attack
Today, more and more companies are outsourcing their online operations, such as websites, e-commerce, e-mail and domain name system (DNS), to focus on core business activities and lower costs. As a result, hosting providers are experiencing double-digit...
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May 23, 2016 •
Security, Top Stories •
IT News Africa •
Comments Off on Scammers selling counterfeit tickets to upcoming Olympic Games
Kaspersky Lab experts found the first spam emails mentioning the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in early 2015, a year before the event is set to take place. The majority of spam emails are in English, but some are also in Portuguese because of the location...
