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At the 2026 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, the emphasis was on digitalisation and technological advancement of the industry. However, the industry recognises that cybersecurity can no longer continue to remain the unaddressed elephant in the room

South African banks scramble as cybercriminals up the ante

Cyber thefts attacking banks in ever new ways is a global problem that targets unsuspecting personal bank account holders

Redefining security in the age of cyber-threats

It is time to invest in tools and methodologies that put security back into the hands of your business

What is ransomware and how to protect your precious files from it

Safeguarding digital frontiers is a collective responsibility

South Africa ranks fifth on the list of countries most affected by cybercrime. More troubling, say experts, is that many incidents go unreported out of fear of reputational…

Israel’s surveillance tools are now part of its economic presence in Africa. Photo: File

South Africans must up their game against cybercrime

In 2021, South Africa had the third-highest number of cybercrime victims worldwide and it cost the economy R2.2-billion a year

Israel’s surveillance tools are now part of its economic presence in Africa. Photo: File

OPINION| Have you been hacked?

A cool and calm head is the greatest protection against a hack that could ruin your life

Israel’s surveillance tools are now part of its economic presence in Africa. Photo: File

What can the government do to limit cyber threats?

Governments need to formalise cyber-related information sharing and cooperation to unify the response to cyberattacks

Israel’s surveillance tools are now part of its economic presence in Africa. Photo: File

The evolution of cybercrime and how we can fight back

The odds of your company being hacked are much higher than you think. This can have devastating effects, as when Transnet had to declare force majeure a few months ago

Vulnerable: After Transnet was affected by a ransomware cyberattack on 27 July, forcing ports to use manual systems, two more government agencies were hacked in September. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty

Basic web lessons for South Africa: Government hacks point to systematic security issues

Recent cyberattacks at the department of justice and the space agency highlight the extent of our naïveté

Held to ransom: Empty petrol trucks parked near storage tanks linked to the Colonial Pipeline system. Fuel shortages worsened in the United States after the DarkSide hacker group disrupted the pipeline. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

DarkSide: Following the money in the crypto age

Ransomware is the fastest-growing cryptocurrency-related crime. Known payments to ransomware attackers rose 337% from 2019 to 2020, when they reached over R5.4-billion worth of…

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Biden said the Colonial fuel pipeline that was shuttered by a ransomware attack last week is fully operational again, but asked Americans for patience and warned gas stations against price-gouging. Photographer: T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The White House opens a new era of cybersecurity

South Africa, too, is vulnerable to cyber attacks and needs to take steps to secure its digital futur

Bitcoin ‘whales’ pulling cryptocurrency

Bitcoin’s crypto-nite wanes as illicit activity falls

New research shows that there were fewer cryptocurrency-related crimes in 2020 — a bumper year for the digital asset. But the biggest scam originated in South Africa

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."

The SACP was the first South African political party to call for a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture

Data loss will make you wanna cry

Cut your losses and don’t pay cybercriminals a ransom. You won’t get your files back anyway

Alexis Sanchez

Datajacking computer files is big business

The easy solution is to pay the ransom, but there is no guarantee that your files will be decrypted.

The first 50 bitcoins were born on January 3 2009. (Reuters)

What to do if your data is held hostage

If malicious ransomware gets your computer in its clutches, it is possible to retrieve it – but you’ll have to cough up.