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Cybercrimes Act
Apr 11, 2022

Getting to grips with the Cybercrimes Act

The Cybercrimes Act is aimed at bringing SA in line with global trends in cyber crime law and address weaknesses in local legislation that failed to codify the changing cyber threat landscape.

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Cybereason
Apr 6, 2022

Cybereason achieves 100% prevention, visibility, real-time protection

Cybereason achieved 100% prevention – detecting and preventing 100% of the nine different attack sequences evaluated for both Windows and Linux.

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SpringShall
Apr 1, 2022

Critical SpringShell vulnerability remains unpatched

In the meantime, Praetorian has listed temporary mitigations for this vulnerability,

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Russia-Ukraine war
Mar 31, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war sparks more phishing, malware scams

Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovers a growing number of threat actors using the war as a lure.

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World Backup Day
Mar 31, 2022

World Backup Day: SA firms under siege like never before

As cyber attacks increasingly bombard local organisations, World Backup Day serves as a reminder to back up data as a matter of urgency.

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World Backup Day
Mar 31, 2022

World Backup Day: Businesses must backup and plan for recovery

Recovery can often be the missing part of the successful business continuity equation, says Byron Horn-Botha, business unit head at Arcserve Southern Africa.

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Ransomware
Mar 31, 2022

Red flag for ransomware: attackers are using Log4Shell vulnerability to deliver backdoors to virtual servers, Sophos research shows

Sophos finds three backdoors, possibly delivered by initial access brokers, and four cryptominers targeting unpatched VMware Horizon servers.

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Regtech
Mar 30, 2022

Is RegTech the answer to SA financial institutions’ ineffective terrorist financing controls?

Using machine learning, new transactional patterns that highlight potential terrorist financing can be detected without human intervention, says Francois Combrinck, capability architect at Ovations.

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Andre Lombaard
Mar 30, 2022

Zero trust cyber security approach vital for besieged local businesses

The pre-COVID virtual private network set-up that permits users to access all areas of the network is no longer a secure strategy, says Andre Lombaard, technical manager: security at Datacentrix.

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Skybox Security
Mar 29, 2022

When will zero trust move from hype to reality?

Learn what zero trust is, why it is difficult to build a zero trust architecture, why zero trust principles are here to stay and what you should do about it.

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Cyber security policies: a must-have for online trading brokerages

Cyber criminals don’t seem to be slowing down and many of these attacks are starting to target online brokerage businesses.

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TransUnion
Mar 25, 2022

Info Regulator reads riot act to TransUnion over hack

The Information Regulator expresses dissatisfaction with how the embattled credit bureau is handling the data breach it suffered.