Seventy four per cent of organisations say that damaging cyberattacks are a result of vulnerabilities in the technology that was put into place during the pandemic, according to Tenable Inc. In the Beyond Boundaries: The Future of Cybersecurity in the New World of Work report, it...
The bi-annual NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report has underlined the dramatic impact cyberattacks continue to have on governments and private and public organisations across the world. The first half of 2021 saw approximately 5.4million Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks – a figure that is 11 per...
Kaspersky has recorded a decline in the number of phishing attacks for the first half of the year, in comparison to the same period last year. South Africa saw a 17% decline, Nigeria a 13% and Kenya an impressive 48% declines in phishing attacks. The figures...
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) the United Nations’ (UN) arm in charge of global telecommunications, has called on governments in Nigeria and other areas of Africa to strengthen their internet security. The UN is concerned that as the world continues to recover from the fallout of...
Automated bots designed to carry out malicious activities on the web, account for a massive 40% of all internet traffic, according to new research from Barracuda, provider of cloud security solutions. While many bots are perfectly harmless – such as those used to crawl search engines,...
Over 90% of IT decision makers in South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe say they have increased their focus on cyber security, according to research from pan-African tech group Liquid Intelligent Technologies. With cybercrime on the rise, 79% of respondents say that the advent of remote working...
On 22 July, the first reports emerged that Transnet, a South African state-owned enterprise, was experiencing problems with its information technology (IT) networks. Transnet manages the nation’s rail, port and pipeline infrastructure. The disruption primarily affected operations in several container terminals, interrupting cargo movement. Four...
Callsign, the digital identity pioneer warms that the rise of scams is harming organisations’ reputations across the world. A global study of consumers revealed that just receiving a scam message purporting to be from any brand is enough for 49.8% of them to lose trust...
The Cloud Security Summit Africa, supported by Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria(CSEAN) brings together 250+ IT and Business heads from cross-industry verticals across Africa with an aim to foster discussions around the deep seated challenges, progress needed and tech reforms advised for the African...
Eagle Eye Networks, global leader in cloud video surveillance has introduced the first-of-its-kind 4G, direct-to-cloud body camera designed specifically for commercial use. This new offering provides commercial customers with affordable access to feature-rich, professional-grade body camera services, which improve staff safety and accountability, trigger immediate response,...