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TEXTILE GUY

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A “cybersecurity centre” will be established under the auspices of the state security minister, a “national cybercrime centre” by the national police commissioner, and the defence minister is directed to establish a “cybercommand” as part of military intelligence.

The telecommunications and postal services minister must establish a “cybersecurity hub” to sign service level agreements with all private and public institutions.

Among this hub’s functions is to co-ordinate “general cybersecurity activities in the private sector”, obtain their compliance and to trigger incident response teams to be established by each sector.

The bill allows for fines of up to R10m, and/or 10 years’ jail, to be imposed in the event of a guilty verdict for unlawfully accessing or intercepting “national critical information infrastructure” and “critical data”.

Critical data is described as information that is “of importance for the protection of security, defence and international relations” of South Africa, “the enforcement of a law” and “the protection of public safety” in the country, and information relating to a confidential source in the enforcement of a criminal law.

Critical data also includes trade secrets and commercial information which would give undue advantage and financial institutions’ records.

Fines of up to R5m and/or five years’ imprisonment can be imposed for anyone found guilty of using illegally obtained personal or financial information of another person in the commission of a crime.

The bill has been published on the Justice Department’s website.

The deadline for public comment is November 30.
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Source http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cyber-squad-for-sa-1.1908999


What thoughts?
 
Seems like a good idea.

Not too sure how well it will be executed though.
 
Fines of up to R5m and/or five years’ imprisonment can be imposed for anyone found guilty of using illegally obtained personal or financial information of another person in the commission of a crime.
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A very convenient law for the cANCer to nail anyone who discovers holes in their stupid websites...
 
Critical data is described as information that is “of importance for the protection of security, defence and international relations” of South Africa, “the enforcement of a law” and “the protection of public safety” in the country, and information relating to a confidential source in the enforcement of a criminal law.
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The issue is how one interprets this statement.

Dont forget, not so long ago, the government wanted to issue a ban on the posting of Nkandla pictures, citing security as the reason.......
 
Hmm, I give it 3 years from launch until we have a Snowden case... It is good though to see the country investing more in cyber security as it seems that we are seriously lacking behind in this field.
 
Interesting .

"The Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill, published on Friday for public comment, consolidates and overtakes about 15 existing laws, targeting a spray of crimes, including: phishing, illegal interception, dumpster diving, theft and online buying of personal information, hacking, and use of malware like viruses, worms, logic bombs or trojan horses."

RICA specifically deals with illegal interception mainly , seems like this Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill will take over the RICA legislation function and bring a whole slew of functions in to the new legislation .
It makes sense to do this especially with the way communications has evolved .

The scope of this legislation is huge and will take many years and many many experts to get right .
 
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TEXTILE GUY said:
The issue is how one interprets this statement.

Dont forget, not so long ago, the government wanted to issue a ban on the posting of Nkandla pictures, citing security as the reason.......
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That is what I said in essence... So not only if you discover a vuln in their websites, but also, if they catch you posting/writing schitt about Zoomer, then you'll be in for bubba time.

What was also missed is the fact that they want to make hacking totally illegal. That in itself is not the bad thing, but dumpster diving.. that's going to be a serious flaw right there. So if you find some hard drive or CD-R in the trash, you've committed a crime :wtf:
 
LOL - U gotta luv the ANC :whistle:

Everything they do is a after thought.
 
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