August 16, 2019 •
Security, Top Stories •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Cyber exposure company launches new network monitoring innovations
Cyber exposure company, Tenable announced the launch of their new product innovations Tenable.sc and Tenable.io on Thursday, 15 August 2019. These products aim to continuously discover and assess known and unknown assets across on-premises and cloud...
August 16, 2019 •
Security •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Kaspersky announces opening of first Transparency Centre in Asia
Global security company, Kaspersky announced the opening of its first Transparency Centre in Asia Pacific on Thursday, 15 August 2019. This is the third facility of its kind launched by Kaspersky. Similarly, in Zurich and Madrid, the Transparency Centre...
August 12, 2019 •
Security •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on Traditional anti-virus and mail scanner solutions still miss myriad threats
The average office worker spends up to 80 per cent collaborating with their managers and colleagues using tools such as instant messaging, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive which in most cases lack adequate security, this is according to Maor Hizkiev, CTO and...
Acer has partnered with Google to provide local enterprise Chromebook solution as the product enters the commercial scene. According to Acer, the Chromebook solution provides enterprise with three key selling points namely, trusted security across devices,...
US-based financial services provider, Capital one has fallen victim to a cybersecurity breach. The hacker gained access to over 100 million Capital One customers’ accounts and credit card applications — making it one of the largest data breaches ever...
On Thursday, 25 July 2019, Johannesburg residents woke up to bleak news that power utility, City Power had been hit by a ransomware attack. The power utility stated via Twitter that the attack has compromised its web server, databases, applications and...
On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 Trend Micro and VMware in partnership with World Wide Worx released results of local independent security research. The State of Enterprise Security in South Africa 2019 reveals that businesses approach to IT security in a cloud and...
Check Point Researchers have discovered a new variant of mobile malware that is disguised as a Google-related application. The malware has according to Check Point infected around 25 million devices, with primary victims based in India. The core part of the...
The past week has seen a craze around a mobile app that uses neural network technology to automatically generate highly realistic transformations of faces in photographs. Developed by Russian company Wireless Lab, FaceApp, as it is known, has been around...
Global network and endpoint security company, Sophos, announced on Thursday, 11 July 20019, the findings of its global survey, The Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity. The survey reveals that IT managers are inundated with cyber-attacks coming from all...
July 5, 2019 •
Education, Security, Southern Africa •
Kojo •
Comments Off on T-Systems’ digital awareness Programme enhances education in cyber-security
Panyaza Lesufi, MEC of Education and Youth Development in Gauteng, recently mentioned that learners should receive multiple certificates by the time they graduate from high school. The MEC further explained that with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)...
July 5, 2019 •
Security •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on ESET discovers vulnerability in a Cirque de Soleil mobile app
The Cirque du Soleil show Toruk mobile app which was developed for the show which held its final performance on June 30 has made users’ mobile devices vulnerable. The app, named “TORUK – The First Flight,” provided a means for the audience to be part...
July 4, 2019 •
Security, Southern Africa •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on 76% of people have accessed data belonging to their former workplace, study shows
A study recently released by Kaspersky Lab reveals that businesses are at increased risk by not curbing the actions of current and former employees. According to the research, 25 per cent of workers in South Africa still have access to files and documents...
July 3, 2019 •
Security •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Kaspersky collaborates with INTERPOL in fight against cybercrime
Kaspersky and INTERPOL have signed a five-year agreement to reinforce their collaboration in the fight against cybercrime around the world. This is the second agreement between the two parties, following the first signed in 2014. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of...
Kenyan telecommunications operator, Safaricom, is facing just over a $1 trillion lawsuit for allegedly violating the data privacy of 11.5 million consumers. According to The Standard, a case filed at the High Court details how one of the company’s...
On Monday, 24 June 2019, Trend Micro Incorporated unveiled its new channel partner programme for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. With this programme, reseller partners will be able to access a host of benefits to fast track channel enablement and provide the...
