Security

2014 has been particularly busy for IT security professionals. Many of the threats that we predicted at the start of the year duly emerged,…

Twenty years ago Stephen Hawking, the leading physicist and author, said that computer viruses should be treated as a life form, as they exploit…

The past few years has seen information security undergoing a radical transformation. A discipline once seen as no more than a necessary evil, security…

Was your business online 20 years ago? Probably not: very few businesses were. After all, the web was still in its infancy, and the…

The past few years have seen a tremendous rise in the use of email as an attack vector for enterprises and larger entities. These…

As yet another barrage of data leakages makes news headlines – most recently publicly exposing FNB and Gautrain customers’ personal details – businesses need…

The security landscape is a complex one, and several layers of defence at multiple points in the organisation are needed to successfully combat today’s…

Until recently, cybercriminals have tended to target countries with higher national income levels, according to the Global Cost of Cybercrime report, compiled by Intel-owned…