Browsing: cybersecurity

Cybercrime is on the rise globally and Africa is not immune. In fact, South Africa has amongst the top most…

It has been 10 months since the commencement of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA). We have taken…

As we settle into 2022, big shifts are expected with emerging technologies such as edge, 5G and data management broadening the technology ecosystem like…

Acronis, a Swiss cyber protection firm, today launched its Cyber Cloud Data Centre in Johannesburg. The new data centre is…

Log4Shell, an internet vulnerability that affects millions of computers, involves an obscure but nearly ubiquitous piece of software, Log4j. The…

There’s nothing quite like a global pandemic with legally enforceable lockdowns to expose the public sector’s dependence on ageing digital…

The increase in cyberthreats recorded by Kaspersky in the first half of this year across South Africa amounted to 31.5…

Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Orange announced a new partnership to leverage each other’s existing networks in Africa, allowing them even…

People believe small businesses don’t have to worry about cybersecurity as much as big corporations. But the reality is the…

It has been almost two years since the pandemic began, with the first lockdown in March 2020 forcing businesses to adopt a…

On the back of the findings of the Attacks From All Angles 2021 Mid-year Cybersecurity Report by Trend Micro, the…

More than 90% of IT decision-makers in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe have accelerated their cybersecurity due to the substantial…

End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means…

Cyberattacks are an evolving and increasing risk to all of us – organisations and individuals alike. With the number of…

The biggest heists do not involve physical contact or criminals gunning down their victims but the art of using technology…

Cybercrime taps into the vulnerability of business systems and can pose a real threat to a robust supply chain. A…

Huawei today opened its largest Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Transparency Center in Dongguan, China. It used the event,…

President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order, signed May 12, 2021, calls for the federal government to adopt a “zero-trust architecture.”…

If the past year has taught me anything, it is the value of resilience. The impact of the pandemic -…

Rectron, a South African distributor of IT products, is expanding its cybersecurity solutions with an additional offering from cloud services…

Pan-African cloud-based digital service provider inq. has announced that they are now a strategic managed security services partner of Elastic,…

The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team has discovered a vulnerability affecting baby monitors, provoked by their misapplication/misconfiguration, which provides potentially harmful parties with unauthorized…

During the last year alone, we have seen a number of organisations become the latest victims of targeted cyberattacks and…

Dimension Data has partnered with Mimecast to provide a Managed Secure Email service to help organisations address the growing number…

By Alain Tshal In 2020, the world changed overnight in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As more organisations adopted and…