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South African Organisations Lag Behind Global Average of Cybersecurity Resilience

Email and data security company, Mimecast, unveiled its fourth-annual State of Email Security 2020 report. This report summarises details from 1,025 global IT decision-makers on the current state of cybersecurity. The findings in this year’s report demonstrate that despite...

INTERVIEW: Kaspersky Africa’s Bethwel Opil on cyber-security and human firewalls

Bethwel Opil, Enterprise Sales Manager at Kaspersky Africa, is passionate about investing in technologies and strategies that will allow businesses to reap the benefits of the digital world — however, he believes growth in the tech sphere can lead...

Attackers exploit flaw in GDPR-themed WordPress plugin to hijack websites

Attackers have been exploiting a security weakness in a GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress to seize control of vulnerable websites, according to a blog post by Defiant, which makes Wordfence security plugins for the web publishing platform. Importantly, the developer...

IT News Africa: Top Stories of The Week

This week was yet again filled with tech news stories that grabbed the headlines both across Africa and around the world. From new innovations and digital transformation, growing economies to emerging startups, here is a round up of some of...

Cyber and digital skills top growth threats to private business

Research conducted among 722 private business owners reveals that technology and digital skill threats loom large on the horizon. The PwC's 21st Annual Global CEO survey shows that a third (39%) of private business leaders cite cyber threats as...

Using cyber intelligence to catch cybercriminals

The story of a local bank being taken for R300 million by cyber criminals who had 100 people withdrawing money from ATMs in Japan made the headlines. But South African companies, unlike their US counterparts, are not required by...

Top 5 Cyber threats every security leader must know about

Networks are evolving at an unprecedented rate. Physical and virtual environments, private and public clouds, and a growing array of Internet of Things (IoT) and endpoint devices are all dramatically expanding the potential attack surface. Protecting highly elastic network...

Kaspersky Lab and ITU research reveals new advanced cyber threat

Kaspersky Lab announces the discovery of a highly sophisticated malicious program that is actively being used as a cyber weapon attacking entities in several countries. The complexity and functionality of the newly discovered malicious program exceed those of all...
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