Cyber Security
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Data breaches & Data leaks – what SA businesses need to know
03 April 2025: With over 34.5 million breached accounts recorded in South Africa in the first quarter of 2024 alone, cyber threats are escalating at an alarming rate. The country...
NETSCOUT Reports DDoS Attacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure Play a Dominant Role in Geopolitical Conflicts
DDoS attacks are precision-guided digital weapons as DDoS-for-hire services, AI and powerful botnets drive onslaught of attacks WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) today released its 2H2024 DDoS...
Is The Cloud Better For Security? It’s Complicated
Johannesburg: At the start of the cloud era, there was anxiety about whether the cloud was more secure. Today, there is this extreme confidence in cloud security. Companies think being...
NHI needs to be secured against cyberattacks
The centralised electronic health record (EHR) system, proposed as the cornerstone of South Africa's National Health Insurance (NHI), is a critical step towards a more modern, digitised healthcare system....
Tightening Cyber Defences in the SA Financial Services Industry Through Legislation
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – 20 March 2025 – Automated processes across banking, financing, insurance and other financial services are dependent on complex infrastructures that span both on-premises data centres and...
Commvault brings Minutes to Meltdown interactive cyberattack simulation showcase to South Africa
Commvault recently hosted its Minutes to Meltdown event in Johannesburg and Cape Town. This event, led by the company's security experts, was an interactive and detailed ransomware attack simulation...
Trend Micro and Intel Innovate to Weed Out Covert Threats
JOHANNESBURG – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, has announced a new collaboration with Intel ® (NASDAQ:INTC) designed to help joint enterprise customers protect critical systems from stealthy threats, including fileless...
Cyber insurance: the average amount of compensation claimed by organisations using MDR services is 97.5% lower than that of organisations relying on endpoint solutions...
Sophos, a leading global provider of innovative security solutions designed to neutralise cyberattacks, has unveiled the results of a new independent study to quantify the financial impact of various...
Beware the QR Code Trap: How “Quishing” Threatens Your Business
Threat actors are constantly finding new and innovative ways to compromise systems, and the latest technique is "quishing."; Quishing - short for QR code phishing - leverages the growing...
Buying cybersecurity products won’t make your business safer. What will?
Johannesburg: Cyberattacks have graduated from "possible" to "probable," according to a major South African insurer. Businesses must act to reduce cyber risks, which many are doing by spending on new security...
