Will Garmin Pay $10 Million Ransom To End Two-Day Outage?
July 25, 2020
Hospital operator is the third major South African company to be targeted by hackers this year....
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Life Healthcare hit by cyber attack
June 10, 2020
Hospital operator is the third major South African company to be targeted by hackers this year....
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SA number three on world list of most cybercrime victims
May 29, 2020
SA has third-highest number of cybercrime victims in the world with about R2.2bn lost each year through fraudulent activities carried via the internet, according to professional services company Accenture....
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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2019 – 627 million records breached
January 6, 2020
The new year – and new decade – is underway, but before saying goodbye to 2019, we have one more monthly round-up to get to. December saw 90 disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, with 627,486,696 records being compromised. That’s about a third of the average monthly total, although the number of incidents has climbed steadily throughout the year....
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Cybersecurity Is Critical for all Organizations – Large and Small
November 8, 2019
In today’s computerized world, new risks emerge every hour of every day. Connecting to the Internet opens up the possibility of a hacker targeting your organization. Cybercrime is becoming big business and cyber risk a focus of organizations and governments globally....
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The massive DDoS attack that won’t stop – Cool Ideas’ nightmare
September 26, 2019
At 13:30 on Saturday, 21 September, Cool Ideas’ networking team started receiving alerts. They were under attack and their DDoS mitigation had kicked in. Their network had been brought to its knees by a similar attack just ten days ago, so they watched closely to make sure their new defences held....
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Nation-State APTs Target U.S. Utilities With Dangerous Malware
August 8, 2019
Researchers believe that nation-state actors are behind several spearphishing campaigns targeting U.S. utility companies with a newly-identified malware, which has the capabilities to view system data and reboot machines....
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Ransomware attack leaves Joburg residents unable to buy electricity
July 25, 2019
City Power confirmed on Twitter this morning that it has been hit by a ransomware attack which compromised its web server, databases, applications, and network. Ransomware encrypts everything it can reach from the victim’s machine and holds the information hostage, usually demanding a Bitcoin payment from the victim for the private key needed to decrypt the information....
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More than 25 million Android devices infected with ‘Agent Smith’ malware
July 11, 2019
PSA: Security researchers have discovered a new malware infecting more than 25 million Android devices. Dubbed “Agent Smith,” the code makes its way on to a device through sketchy apps and then disguises itself as a Google-related application....
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Hacker Lexicon: What is Credential Dumping?
July 11, 2019
DESPITE ALL THE cybersecurity industry’s talk of preventing “breaches,” a computer network in some ways is less like a fortress and more like a human body. And skillful hackers are like germs: They tend to get in via some orifice or another. Once inside, it’s whether they can thrive and multiply their infections—and what vital organs they can reach—that determines...
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