It is ridiculously easy for hackers to attack Eskom’s central electricity distribution network, said Jacques van Heerden of Global Technology Security Provider.<\/p>\n
Van Heerden told the Rapport newspaper that Eskom’s systems have no “space break” – a physical separation between systems.<\/p>\n
If a virus attacks its computers, the same thing could happen to Eskom that happened to the UK’s National Health Service when its systems were infected with the WannaCry ransomware<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Telkom recently said outages on its customer service platforms were a result of an increase in network traffic caused by WannaCry.<\/p>\n Telkom said its systems were not infected, however, and none of its data was encrypted by the worm –\u00a0raising questions<\/a><\/strong> about how its app, call centre, and website were taken offline.<\/p>\n Basie von Solms, director of the University of Johannesburg’s cybersecurity centre, said no one really knows how prepared the government is for cyberattacks.<\/p>\n Von Solms said the government has already been the target of several attacks, with Home Affairs, the police, and Armscor targeted recently.<\/p>\n The Anonymous hacker collective has also threatened the South African government over corruption, said von Solms.<\/p>\n It is ridiculously easy for hackers to attack Eskom’s central electricity distribution network, said Jacques van Heerden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23905,181,35,43840],"class_list":["post-214928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-basie-von-solms","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-jacques-van-heerden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214936,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214928\/revisions\/214936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0How did WannaCry traffic take down Telkom’ app, call centre, and website?<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"