Your guide up a mountain of information! - Wed, Feb 19 2020

53% of Africans surveyed think that trusting emails from people they know is good enough; 28% have fallen for a phishing email and 50% have had a malware infection; 64% don't know what ransomware is and yet believe they can easily identify a…

Namibia is working on a national cyber security strategy to protect banks from malware attacks, officials said Tuesday. According to Kaspersky, a multinational cyber security firm, about 2.9 percent of malware attacks globally targeted Namibian…

The 2019 KnowBe4 African Report across South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritius and Botswana has found that people living on the continent are not prepared for the cyber threat. 65% of respondents across all eight countries…

Generally, information security (sometimes shortened to InfoSec) has been defined as the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information. It refers to…

2G and 3G networks could be putting the public at risk, according to research released today by Positive Technologies. Due to vulnerabilities in the SS7 protocol, 2G & 3G networks are opening the door for hackers to potentially track a customer's…

Ghanaian technology company Mitgapp Ltd. is poised to take cyber security solutions to another level after a year of pioneering innovations in cybersecurity services provisions in the country. As part of its plans, the company will from next year…

Data protection and privacy regulation in most, or even all, African countries are often less mature – particularly when compared to the EU's General Data Protection (GDPR) regime. As such, economies on the continent present both risks and…

A new global cyber-security report has revealed details of the growing notoriety of a Kenyan hacker group known as 'SilentCards' in international circles. SilentCards, based in Nairobi, has previously been accused of orchestrating multi-million…

African businesses and banking systems have been described as low hanging fruit for hackers from across the globe seeking systems vulnerable to cyberattacks. African countries are more vulnerable than most developing countries to sophisticated…

It is a well known fact that South Africa faces a significant obstacle to our 4IR ambitions thanks to a lack of critical digital skills development. It is a task that does not fall solely on government to address either, which means the private and…