If communications between WiFi points and the people using it are not encrypted, it's child's play for an attacker to intercept data, says Kaspersky Lab.
Researchers allege Apple has the ability to snoop on its users' iMessages, despite its insistence that it cannot.
Bytes has joined the South African Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners as a corporate member.
Researchers have identified 25 new flaws that could potentially be used to take over water or electricity supplies.
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.
Sixty-one percent of respondents to a global survey could not fully restore all data that was damaged during malware attacks.
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Advertising-driven malware using links to fake Java sites are doing the rounds.
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.
External penetration tests - to pick up any potential e-tag Web site vulnerabilities - are in the offing.
Motorists logging into Sanral's e-toll Web site are at risk of having their information scalped.
A sophisticated group of cyber criminals enter an Internet back door to defraud South African restaurant-goers of millions.
The archipelago becomes the number one originator of cyber attack traffic, overtaking China.
Experts argue over the effectiveness of fingerprint biometrics as a security measure.
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems have generally not been accounted for within the network security scheme.