{"id":2155,"date":"2007-12-05T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T07:06:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-05T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T07:06:22","slug":"sa-on-guard-for-increase-in-criminal-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/2155-sa-on-guard-for-increase-in-criminal-hacking.html","title":{"rendered":"SA on guard for increase in criminal hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eghshaan Khan, the State Information Agency&#39;s newly-appointed chief information officer, said yesterday: &quot;One of the areas I will be focusing on here is security. Sita has strong security in its network but we need to improve awareness about the risks.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Times of London reported that more than 100 websites were offering to sell 30000 British credit card numbers for less than R15 each.<\/p>\n<p>Network Unlimited sales manager Scott Martin blamed &quot;sophisticated criminal networks&quot; rather than child hackers: &quot;The average South African bank is hit thousands of times a day, but unlike in the US, companies here aren&#39;t required by law to publicise an infiltration.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacking could be on the rise in SA come 2010. The warning follows Internet security breaches in Britain that resulted in information on thousands of bank clients being sold online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}