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EU leaders are looking to improve economic security and resilience 

Creating an environment for small businesses to thrive in is of particular concern

Hijacking on all social media platforms rose an estimated tenfold in the last year, with Instagram users bearing the brunt of this scourge. Image: Pexels

Hacked in a nano-second

Ryan Enslin spent 10 years curating his Instagram account only to have it hacked in seconds.

Posting intimate details of our of our personal and professional online gives cybercriminals valuable information. (Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Social media oversharing can be a danger to people, their children and their companies

Posting intimate details of our of our personal and professional online gives cybercriminals valuable information

Three cyber threats we might encounter is this new digital realm and how to deal with them. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

The metaverse will not be immune to cyber threats

Three cyber threats we might encounter is this new digital realm and how to deal with them

WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors. (Nicolas Ortega for ProPublica)
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How Facebook undermines privacy protections for its 2bn WhatsApp users

WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors

The hacking of Experian is one of the largest data breaches to have hit South Africa. (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/Getty Images)

What cyberhacking data means for you

About 24-million people and almost 800 000 businesses were affected when hackers stole information held by Experian credit bureau. The M&G examines how you can protect yourself

But what should children be interacting with online, in an ideal world? To solve that problem, there are recommendations for teachers: a collection of educational Google Play apps. And parents can share ideas with Google.

Online safety is a family matter

Google has a number of tools and apps that parents may find useful

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Build bond between science and society

New ideas and technologies can provide solutions but in unethical hands they can be dangerous

Cloudflare’s move terminating its cybersecurity and other services means 8chan could be exposed to distributed denial-of-service attacks, in which hackers take down a site by flooding it with fake traffic.(Gallo)

Cloudflare ends services for ‘lawless’ 8chan after El Paso massacre

In a blog post announcing the move, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince described the no-censorship site as "a cesspool of hate."

Although anyone can fall victim to revenge porn (there have been cases of a dick pic or two roaming the Twitter streets), the overwhelming majority of victims are women.

Online nude, offline problem

Send the pic, but take measures to prevent more exposure than you wanted

(Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Huawei defends global ambitions amid Western security fears

The company has been under fire this year, with Washington leading efforts to blacklist Huawei internationally

Digital fluency, which refers to the ability to select and use the appropriate digital solutions to achieve a desired outcome, will be the number one skill required to advance in the workplace. (John McCann/M&G)

IMF backs state-issued digital currency

Cryptocurrencies are imploding but Lagarde says central banks should join the fintech revolution

Activist Laura Miti (right) along with about 100 other people, mainly from civil society groups, protest outside the Zambian Parliament during the 2019 national budget statement. (Salim Dawood/AFP)

‘Targeted crackdown’ on society

A new report claims the Zambian government is harassing and threatening its critics

Iraq has more than 15 000 digital storefronts on Facebook and Instagram, said an IT professional familiar with the country’s digital economy. (Reuters)

Chinese-style ‘digital authoritarianism’ grows globally — study

The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018,

Eugene Kaspersky

If we can’t trust Kaspersky, can we trust Microsoft?

An intelligence agency may still break into software companies to backdoor their software, and probably will.

The high court made a ruling against Gigaba

UCT leads in countering cyberattacks on varsities

"The challenge for university cybersecurity is to govern security in a way that doesn’t hamper research, teaching or learning."

“We know a lot about real-world criminology. We don’t know anything about cyber juvenile delinquency

Psychologist RATs on hackers

“We know a lot about real-world criminology. We don’t know anything about cyber juvenile delinquency.”

Cybercriminals thrive on silence

A draft Bill aims to bring the growing threat of cybercrime into the open and provide the legal means to fight it.

Mending cracks: Minister of State Security David Mahlobo says South Africa’s national security values have been undermined with the ‘purported’ leak of top secret cables.

State agency monitoring cyberspace for Isis recruitment

SA’s state agencies were monitoring cyberspace for recruitment by the Islamic State (Isis), State Security Minster David Mahlobo said.

Film and Publications Board panel discussion.

FPB earmarks R8m to censor online

The Film and Publications Board plans to spend over R8-million a year to police YouTube, but is about to have its child pornography wings clipped.