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Is Your Organisation Prepared for the Next Outage Coming?
Over the past year and a half, a series of major global IT disruptions—from a routine software update gone wrong to widespread DNS failures and configuration errors that brought down X, Zoom, Spotify, Canva, and ChatGPT, amongst others—has demonstrated a simple truth. No organization…
”Financial Anxiety is Making South Africans Click on Scams”
The narrative of cybersecurity risk often revolves around sophisticated hacking tools or zero-day vulnerabilities. Yet, the most significant threat to South Africans isn’t a technical flaw—it’s an emotional vulnerability rooted in a national financial crisis. The approaching high-expenditure festive season,…
Kaspersky Warns Users Against Falling Victim to Scams
Kaspersky experts have discovered scam websites that closely mimic the group’s official merchandise store, putting users and their data at significant risk. The scheme works as follows: attackers created a site that closely resembles the legitimate one and offers users…
5 Ways to Protect Yourself & Your Money This Black Friday
Black Friday has become a make-or-break moment in retail. With online sales climbing by over 30% during the four-day window from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, when there are already over 1 billion e-commerce transactions annually in SA, this single…
NETSCOUT 1H 2025 Report: Southern Africa Sees Sharp Rise in DDoS Attacks, SA Top Target
According to NETSCOUT’s latest Threat Intelligence Report for 1H 2025, Southern Africa is facing a sharp rise in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with South Africa remaining the region’s top target. The country recorded more than 213,000 attacks in…
9 Expert Tips to Avoid Black Friday Online Scams
As retailers and enterprises across South Africa prepare for the annual Black Friday surge on 28 November. Online transaction volumes continue to climb each year. During Black Friday 2024, PayFast recorded a peak of 2,185 transactions per minute, while just…
Kaspersky Launches Digital Platform for Cybersecurity Beginners
According to a Kaspersky study, 41% of companies report that their cybersecurity teams are significantly understaffed, primarily due to a shortage of qualified professionals to handle complex challenges. This talent gap is further echoed by the fact that 49% of…
Crypto Boom Exposes Africa Cyber Risk
Cryptocurrency in Africa has evolved rapidly from a fringe financial activity into a major economic force—and cybercriminals are taking notice. Between July 2024 and June 2025, the continent recorded USD $205-billion in on-chain transactions, making it the world’s third-fastest-growing crypto…
Kaspersky Shares Top 5 Trends in the Financial Sector
The financial industry is rapidly advancing into a new digital era—more dynamic, intelligent, and interconnected than ever before. However, it brings not only rapid operational processes, highly personalized customer experiences, and limitless scalability, but also opens a door for cyber…
Kaspersky Launches a New Free Online Course
Today, people average nearly seven hours of online time daily, surfing the web and using gadgets, but they also leave enormous amounts of personal information online and regularly encounter traps left by scammers. In fact, in 2024 alone, Kaspersky detected 4.9…
Genetec Unveils IA-Powered Investigation Tools in Security Center SaaS
Genetec Inc. unveiled new intelligent-automation (IA)-powered investigation capabilities in Security Center SaaS to help operators quickly locate video evidence, understand the context of an event, and close cases in minutes. For many organizations, investigations still involve hours of scrubbing through video…
Why your company’s cybersecurity strategy is probably wrong – and how to fix it
Recently, I asked a room full of business leaders who among them would rate their cybersecurity posture as “excellent.” Only one hand went up. When I dropped the ranking to “good,” just a few more hands were tentatively raised. The…
Kaspersky shares a guide to deleting your digital footprint from the Internet
Users’ digital footprints have been building up for years. Social media accounts, old comments, carelessly posted photos, message boards, and old marketplace listings — everything that each individual user has ever shared online remains there, potentially causing serious retroactive issues…
PwC Digital Trust Insights: Why SA Needs Smarter Cybersecurity Strategies Now
The latest PwC Digital Trust Insights Survey reveals that local business and technology leaders are prioritizing cyber resilience like never before; yet, critical capability gaps underscore the urgent need for integrated, future-ready strategies. As global uncertainty intensifies and cyber threats…
Kaspersky Warns Open-Source AI Connector Could Be Abused by Cyberattackers
Open-sourced by Anthropic in 2024, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard that gives AI systems, especially LLM-based apps, a consistent way to connect to external tools and services. For instance, organizations may use it to let LLMs search…
Kenya Once Again Tops DDoS Threat List in East Africa, According to NETSCOUT’s Report
Kenya has retained its position as the East African country most targeted by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, according to NETSCOUT’s 1H 2025 Threat Intelligence Report. Ranked third across the continent after South Africa and Morocco, Kenya recorded over…
