There are loopholes in the Rica Act that are leading to surveillance abuse by intelligence agencies, says the Right2Know Campaign.
Attorney Mark Heyink believes information security specialists need to be involved in the drafting of the controversial Bill.
Wolfpack Information Risks will establish five national cyber security community initiatives this year.
The South African legal system is inadequately equipped to deal with cyber threats, says ENS Africa.
ITWeb TV #SS24 Steve Jump, Custodiet Advisory Services
Recorded live at ITWeb Security Summit 2024, Steve Jump, director, Custodiet Advisory Services, provided ITWeb's Adrian Hinchcliffe with an update on the Security Summit Hackathon, the value these have in skills development and talent recruitment for companies and the start-up scene, as well as an overview of Secure by Design principles.
Criminals behind ransomware campaigns are outsourcing every component required to spread viral infection, says Intel Security's Raj Samani.
ITWeb Security Summit 2024
Focusing on one style to verify vulnerabilities is a waste of time and money, says Marco Slaviero, lead researcher at Thinkst Applied Research.
ITWeb TV: AI-driven fraud rises as criminals target human trust | Ep #158
AI-driven fraud is rising across Africa, with criminals exploiting human behaviour and trust rather than system vulnerabilities, says Thalia Pillay, CEO of Orca Fraud. In an interview with ITWeb Africa editor Samuel Mungadze, Pillay says criminals are deploying increasingly sophisticated AI-powered tactics to circumvent security controls.
The average ransom demand hitting individual users now stands at a hefty $300, says Symantec's Antonio Forzieri.
African organisations are not immune to certain types of cyber crime, says PwC.
ADSL routers and NAS storage devices are key targets for criminals to gain access to company systems, according to a demo by Telspace Systems.
Low levels of computer literacy and ineffective legislation are among the primary reasons for this, says Charl van der Walt of Sensepost.
As the old cyber security adage goes: "The Internet does not necessarily create new crimes, it merely creates new opportunities for the same crimes to be carried out in a different medium".
Many businesses are not thinking strategically enough to stand up to a mushrooming threat landscape, says Haroon Meer of Thinkst.