cybersecurity

  1. Luis

    Hacker claims to have breached Nando's

    Hacker claims to have breached Nando's A threat actor has claimed to have breached Nando's and is selling what they allege to be private data from Nando's employees in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In a post on a notable hacker forum, the threat actor said that over 87,000 alleged private...
  3. Luis

    DatingBuzz.co.za denies cyberattack and private record leak

    DatingBuzz.co.za denies cyberattack and private record leak The operator of DatingBuzz, one of South Africa's oldest and most popular online dating sites, denied claims on a popular hacking forum that it had been breached and that its customer records had been put up for sale. Threat actors...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  4. Luis

    Hackers breached South Africa's top supercomputer and used it to mine crypto

    Hackers breached South Africa's top supercomputer and used it to mine crypto The CSIR’s Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) has notified users of a serious security breach on its Lengau compute cluster, with user credentials and private keys likely compromised. Emails sent to CHPC...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  5. Luis

    Charges over 2024 ransomware attack levelled at SABS officials

    Charges over 2024 ransomware attack levelled at SABS officials The Department of Trade has taken disciplinary action against two executives for failing to implement cybersecurity recommendations at the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) in 2022. As a result, the SABS systems were left...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  6. Luis

    South Africa's hacker problem is a systemic one, says Palo Alto

    South Africa's hacker problem is a systemic one, says Palo Alto Recent cyberattacks on South African organisations with political messaging attached distract from a wider systemic problem with local government and its cybersecurity systems. That is according to Justin Lee, Regional Director of...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  7. JerryMungo

    Major South African data breaches called into question

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  8. Luis

    South African Revenue Services denies on Nigerian data breach

    South African Revenue Services denies on Nigerian data breach The South African Revenue Service (SARS) said claims by a hacktivist group that its systems have been breached were false and unsubstantiated. Over the weekend, a group calling itself Nullsec Nigeria said it breached SARS and the...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  9. Luis

    ANC members at risk of identity theft, fraud, says cybersecurity expert

    ANC members at risk of identity theft, fraud, says cybersecurity expert Members of the African National Congress (ANC) are at heightened risk of identity theft, fraud and impersonation following the leaking of nearly 2GB of private data belonging to the political party. A cybersecurity expert...
  10. Luis

    GitHub has been hacked with source code up for sale for R1.6 million

    GitHub has been hacked with source code up for sale for R1.6 million Code sharing platform GitHub, which has over 150 million registered developers worldwide, announced on Wednesday that an unauthorised actor had gained access to its internal systems. A threat actor known as TeamPCP claimed...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  11. Luis

    MacOS security defeated by a small team in one week using Mythos

    MacOS security defeated by a small team in one week using Mythos A team of researchers used AI to compromise MacOS in an attack that defeats Apple's most powerful hardware security system, which previously blocked all other known attacks. Many security experts consider Apple devices the...
  12. Luis

    How malware and keyloggers were used to steal R2 billion from Ekurhuleni metro

    How malware and keyloggers were used to steal R2 billion from Ekurhuleni metro More details have been revealed about the City of Ekurhuleni's "digital state of emergency", where it reportedly lost R2 billion in revenues due to a long-running cyberattack allegedly abetted by insiders. The...
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    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  13. Luis

    Banks in South Africa should be concerned about the rise of Mythos

    Banks in South Africa should be concerned about the rise of Mythos Anthropic's AI model Mythos, part of its Claude software, represented a clear threat to banks and financial institutions in South Africa. This is according to Bijan Sanii, CEO of Canadian fraud detection provider Inetco. The...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  14. Luis

    City of Ekurhuleni missing R1.6 billion after hacking spree

    City of Ekurhuleni missing R1.6 billion after hacking spree The City of Ekurhuleni said it suffered a "digital state of emergency" where R1.6 billion has yet to be recovered after hackers struck the municipality in a long-term cyberattack. A delegation from the city told Parliament on Thursday...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  15. Luis

    FlySafair user data leak during anticipated R12 ticket sale

    FlySafair user data leak during anticipated R12 ticket sale Popular low-cost South African airline FlySafair leaked the private information of users participating in its highly anticipated R12-a-ticket birthday sale on Wednesday. MyBroadband was informed that the sale site’s bulletin chat API...
  16. Luis

    Consumer Goods Council of South Africa denies data breach

    Consumer Goods Council of South Africa denies data breach Ransomware gang Stormous has claimed that it breached GS1 South Africa, also known as the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA). However, the company said the claim was false. Stormous said it stole a large amount of sensitive...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. Hanno Labuschagne

    AI takes one hour to find severe security flaw in the OS that powers most Internet servers

    AI takes one hour to find severe security flaw in the OS that powers most Internet servers Xint Code, an “AI hacker” from security firm Theori, helped uncover a high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to gain a root shell. The flaw, named Copy Fail and...
  18. Luis

    Insider threats almost always a factor in company breaches in South Africa

    Insider threats almost always a factor in company breaches in South Africa Insider threats were almost always a factor in breaches at major companies in South Africa, as disgruntled employees handed over critical system keys to unknown threat actors. This is according to Thalia Pillay, CEO of...
  19. RedViking

    End of an Era at MultiChoice as Executive Embarks on New Chapter - Goodbye oom Frikkie

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frikkie-jonker-11752780_as-i-bring-to-a-close-many-rewarding-years-activity-7409575198179352577-RaJx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADBfcrsBeAeDfX-0xRulme-ZfQfzkBjsf3g
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    • Forum: Entertainment: Movies and TV Series
  20. Hanno Labuschagne

    ChatGPT security flaw could have allowed hackers gain access to users' Gmail data

    ChatGPT security flaw could have allowed hackers gain access to users' Gmail data OpenAI patched a ChatGPT security flaw that could have allowed hackers to extract Gmail data from its users, according to researchers at cyber firm Radware. The issue was found in ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent, a...
  21. Hanno Labuschagne

    Former WhatsApp employee accuses company of serious cybersecurity missteps

    Former WhatsApp employee accuses company of serious cybersecurity missteps A former employee at Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging he repeatedly raised cybersecurity concerns about the messaging app with his superiors but was ignored and retaliated against...
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