by Dianne Bayley | Jul 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
The rise in cybercrime is unprecedented, writes Ian Jansen van Rensburg, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware. Over one-third of South African IT decision-makers (35%) are on high alert and are expecting cyber-attacks on their businesses within days. Moreover, besides...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 30, 2019 | Internet of Things
Kathy Gibson, Editor of IT-Online, was with Kaspersky Lab in Cape Town, where one of the youngest white hat hackers in the world, 13-year-old Reuben Paul performed a live Internet of Things hack. He intercepted a flying drone, controlling its flight and taking over...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 10, 2019 | Security and Legal
The conventional wisdom with malware is that you can kill it once and for all by wiping a system and starting from scratch. However, a particularly clever piece of surveillance software with Russian ties appears much more resistant. Even replacing drives won’t kill...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 18, 2017 | Workplace 2020
The lack of qualified IT security talent remains a prevalent issue for businesses around the world, with 33% of companies last year admitting that improving their in house security expertise is among the top three priorities of their IT security investment, and 48%...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 18, 2017 | Workplace 2020
Even though cyber security has been put under the microscope, and in spite of years of experience and cyber security investments, organisations continue to struggle with security analytics and operations. This is the word from Arbor Network’s territory manager for...
