by Dianne Bayley | Jul 10, 2021 | Security and Legal
While blended cybersecurity threats are not new, they are fairly sophisticated and multi-staged in nature, meaning that they are difficult to protect against and can pose a considerable threat to organisations’ IT environments. A blended threat typically uses and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 15, 2021 | Security and Legal
Distributed denial of services (DDoS) traffic has more than doubled in volume between January 2020 and May 2021, according to the Nokia Deepfield’s DDoS traffic analysis, which examined service provider network traffic encompassing thousands of routers on the...
by Dianne Bayley | May 9, 2021 | Security and Legal
South Africa has quickly migrated to remote working and digital business on account of Covid-19 and consequently instances of cybercrime are exploding. Data leaks, demanding money from hacked businesses, identity theft and fraudulent financial losses are becoming so...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 10, 2021 | Security and Legal
2020 was a turbulent year as the world grappled to cope with the impact of COVID-19 – both on general sense of wellbeing and the critical infrastructures which connect and protect to ensure our livelihoods, notes Fady Younes, Cybersecurity Director, Middle East and...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 30, 2020 | Security and Legal
In June, the US Secret Service issued a security alert warning about an increase in hacks of managed service providers (MSPs), write Jurgen Sorton, Head of IT – MIT and Barry Kemp, Head of IaaS at Vox . Almost a year earlier, media reports highlighted what was...
