cybersecurity

  1. Luis

    South Africans lured into becoming money mules and could go to jail for it

    South Africans lured into becoming money mules and could go to jail for it South African banking customers may have become unwitting money mules, as malicious actors leverage social engineering, gullibility, and desperation to exploit victims. According to cybersecurity expert Boikokobetso...
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  3. Luis

    SITA looking to fill 20 positions and is offering hefty annual salaries

    State-owned IT firm on hiring spree in South Africa and paying up to R3 million The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has listed 20 positions and is offering annual salaries ranging from just under R500,000 for software developers to R2.97 million for executive-level roles. The...
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  4. Luis

    Select companies in South Africa allowed to preview advanced Microsoft cybersecurity AI

    Select companies in South Africa allowed to preview advanced Microsoft cybersecurity AI Microsoft has announced that a select number of South African organisations have been onboarded on a limited private preview of its new AI-powered cybersecurity platform, MDASH. The new security system...
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    South Africans must be worried about recent massive data leak

    South Africans must be worried about recent massive data leak Cybersecurity experts have warned that South Africans should be concerned about the recent discovery of what could be the largest database leak in history. On Wednesday, researchers at Cybernews discovered an exposed database...
  6. Luis

    South African teachers' private documents exposed by GDE vulnerability

    South African teachers' private documents exposed by GDE vulnerability A vulnerability in a website used by the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) for teachers to apply for marking positions exposed educators' private documents to the public Internet. The flaw was patched following...
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  7. Luis

    The Eastern Cape's Amathole District Municipality has the worst cybersecurity in the country

    The Eastern Cape's Amathole District Municipality has the worst cybersecurity in the country The Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape is allegedly running a server with 353 known security vulnerabilities, 94 of which are "critical" and easily exploitable by cybercriminals. It is...
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  8. Luis

    SITA lacks funding and permission to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities across government networks

    SITA needs funding and permission to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities across government networks The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) said that initiatives to upgrade its networks to better protect them against cyberattacks depended on funding from government departments. It...
  9. Luis

    Instagram's AI was fooled into helping with account takeovers

    Instagram's AI was fooled into helping with account takeovers Several Instagram users said that they used Meta's AI support chatbot to easily break into accounts by asking the artificial intelligence (AI) to change the email addresses of those accounts. While Meta said the exploit that allowed...
  10. 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...
  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. JerryMungo

    Major South African data breaches called into question

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  16. 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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  17. 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...
  18. 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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  19. 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...
  20. 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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  21. 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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