by Dianne Bayley | Nov 15, 2021 | Security and Legal
South Africa will not win the war against corruption if it does not actively and adequately protect whistle-blowers, the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said on 10 November 2021. “Corruption has become embedded in South African society and it robs the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 14, 2021 | Security and Legal
Virtualisation in the cloud and the advancement of Internet-connected devices have made running industrial systems much more manageable, writes Clive Brindley, Security Lead for Accenture in Africa. However, these technologies are also introducing operational...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 27, 2021 | Security and Legal
According to the recently released SABRIC Annual Crime Statistics 2020, social engineering (phishing, vishing and SMishing) continue to be the primary method employed by criminals when targeting victims across digital channels. As cybercrime continues to rise, SABRIC...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2021 | Security and Legal
About 140 resellers and technology service providers have fallen victim to Nobelium, the alleged Russian state actor behind the SolarWinds Orion cyberattacks, since May 2021. The Nobelium attacks are believed to use password spray and phishing to steal credentials and...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 21, 2021 | Security and Legal
Constituting a world first in a field that has traditionally been hostile to “artificially intelligent” inventors, South Africa’s patent office granted a patent in July 2021 to an invention created by an AI system[1][1]. by Spoor & Fisher digs into the...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 21, 2021 | Security and Legal
Recently, 11.9 million financial records known as the Pandora Papers were leaked, revealing the offshore financial assets of many internationally well-known persons, writes Louis Botha, Senior Associate in the Tax & Exchange Control practice at CDH. One of the...
