The South African Banking Risk Information Centre warned on Friday that local banks are under sustained distributed denial-of-service attacks, targeting “various public-facing services”.
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The City of Johannesburg said on Friday that it has detected a “network breach”, which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.
A virtual private network provider that markets its “advanced security” said on Monday that one of its services had been compromised last year.
The head of Google’s devices division has admitted he tells visitors he has smart speakers in his home before they enter the building.
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Sophos Group for $3.8-billion, taking the British cybersecurity firm private in the biggest takeover of a UK technology firm this year.
Facebook has been accused of reverting to the “digital Dark Ages” after serious concerns were raised that plans for message encryption could prevent child abusers and terrorists being caught.
Microsoft, Mastercard and the Hewlett Foundation are funding a new organisation that is planning to help dissidents and other vulnerable groups across the world defend against hackers.
A senior software developer is out of pocket to the tune of R2 000 after his card details were compromised in a malware attack on Garmin South Africa’s website.
Apple has disputed a recent Google security report that described an iPhone malware attack as “en masse”.
Facebook has confirmed that hundreds of millions of user phone numbers were left on an unprotected server.