The constitutional court handed down a significant judgment on this week, declaring that certain provisions of the infamous Regulation of Interception of Communications Act are unconstitutional.
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In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Brenton Swanepoel, head of the technical team at Obscure Technologies South Africa, about why humans remain the weakest link in the information security chain and what can be done about it.
In a landmark judgment handed down on Thursday, the constitutional court banned the South African state from bulk surveillance of online communication, preventing security agencies from hoovering up Internet data.
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E-mail security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the certificate used to guard connections between its products and Microsoft’s cloud services.
Microsoft systems were exposed to the malware used in the Russia-linked hack that targeted US government agencies.
US government agencies have been hit by a widespread campaign of cyberattacks by hackers who were suspected of exploiting a flaw in the update of a US software company.
Unless you’re an IT guru, or someone whose professional duties include protecting computer networks from cyberattacks, you may not have heard of FireEye, a little company specialising in digital warfare.
Apple has threatened to remove apps from the App Store if they don’t comply with an upcoming private feature allowing users to block advertisers from tracking them across different applications.
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the US, has been hacked, likely by a government, and an arsenal of hacking tools used to test the defences of its clients has been stolen.