Cybersecurity

‘Nigerian scam’ endures on Valentine’s Day

Scammers use romantic manipulation and adaptive schemes to deceive victims on the day of love, warns...

WEF 2025: Emerging tech set
to widen cyber gap

A new WEF report says growing complexity deepens the divide between developed and emerging economies and...

Gen AI: Double-edged
sword in AWS arsenal

Setting the scene for the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas next week, AWS CISO CJ Moses...

Who’s spying on you?

A new Kaspersky feature for Android detects suspicious devices tracking the location of a person or...

As easy to hack as 1-2-3

South Africans' passwords are becoming even easier to guess than before, despite a dramatic increase in...

Cyber Resilience standard challenges SA fin sector

The FSCA's joint standard on cybersecurity puts pressure on institutions to align with stringent requirements, writes...

Time to worry, says SA’s first official cyber survey

A massive 88% of participants in CSIR survey admitted to suffering at least one cybersecurity breach.

SA women need to succeed in cybersecurity

The first step is to build more accessible onramps for women to follow a career in...

Cybersecurity needs bullet-proof standards

A ransomware attack on South Africa's National Health Laboratory Service highlights the need to embrace standards...

Better cyber protection means better insurance

Sophos study reveals key trends in insurance adoption among SA companies, amid rising digital threats.

Game Over? Not with cybersecurity

Online gaming and gambling are becoming major targets for hackers worldwide, and the growing African gaming...

How to manage your data when shopping online

With South African companies reporting 150 data breaches a month, consumers must take protection into their...

Business travel? Follow these cybersecurity tips

Only 5% of SA organisations are mature in cybersecurity readiness, posing a massive threat for traveling...

Why hackers target
new hires

After public announcements of new appointments, scammers use shared information to deceive newcomers.

Shopper beware! Social engineering targets you

But you can protect yourself, writes GEORGE WANDSELLA, head of operational risk and fraud at TymeBank.

Call for more women
in cybersecurity

At the recent AWS re:Inforce conference, a gender show of force highlighted the role of women...

AWS re:Inforce 2024: The secret sauce of cybersecurity

At the re:Inforce conference in Philadelphia last week, AWS CISO Chris Betz drew a roadmap for...