2FA to protect your business

Experts at Entersekt recommend businesses take the simple step of activating two-factor authentication to add a...

Employees combat phishing

A third of suspicious emails being reported by employees are phishing scams, according to research by...

Fake accounts target crypto investors

Since the beginning of 2021, Kaspersky has detected more than 1,500 fraudulent global resources aimed at...

How hackers break WhatsApp

Kaspersky has discovered a malicious version of a popular WhatsApp messenger mod (unofficial modification of the app) called...

Scammers target Kanye West’s new Donda album

Over the past few months, the world has been following the progress of Kanye West’s latest album – Donda. Initially, Kanye West rented an...

Cost of data breaches climb to record high

IBM Security has announced the results of a study, which found that data breaches now cost...

AI has a long way to go

Artificial intelligence is only one part of a comprehensive security posture, not the ultimate cure to...

‘Modern data’ is answer to SA’s ransomware scourge

By DANIEL TEIXEIRA, Systems Engineering Manager South Africa, Pure Storage.

Prepare for ransomware

By RENEE TARUN, deputy CISO and VP of information security at Fortinet

Don’t post that vaccination card on social media

Even something as innocent as posting a photo of your vaccination record could open you up...

Top 5 Olympics cyber scams

After an unprecedented year-long delay, the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics recently started. This time, all the events...

Hackers spread malware under guise of Windows 11

Recently, Microsoft has officially introduced a new version of its Windows operating system (OS), Windows 11,...

AI beats cybercriminals at their own game

By DEREK MANKY, chief of security insights & global threat alliances at Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

Tackling the new deepfake threat: how to fight an evil genie

After ransomware, deepfakes are the next imminent threat, writes CHRIS MAYERS, chief security architect at Citrix

Network security needs a few new directions

In the modern era of cyber-crime, ransomware and digital threat vectors, your infrastructure security is more...

Social media scams: beware request from ‘friend’

A Kaspersky survey found over two thirds of South Africans or someone they knew suffered from...

How to react to a ransomware attack

By ANTHONY GIANDOMENICO, practice director of digital forensics and incident response at Fortinet; and AAMIR LAKHANI,...

Messaging apps become main source of phishing scams

The biggest share of malicious links are being sent via WhatsApp, followed distantly by Telegram

The cyber threat centrepiece

My, doesn’t that lovely cyber-attack look nice on the boardroom table?

Scammers, fraudsters, target Black Widow movie opening

The premiere of Black Widow will take place simultaneously in movie theaters and online, and the...