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Online Gaming and Cybercrime
When it comes to games - especially online gaming, it’s one thing to play, but it’s altogether something else to be played. Three interesting facts about the global online gaming industry... The global online gaming market was worth close to $134.9 billion US dollars...
Blockchain Security Benefits
In building, a wall made of 500 connected, overlapping small concrete blocks with steel is stronger than a wall made of one, large concrete “block” without steel. If you wanted to keep a single letter, one “block” of information or an individual document of private...
Watering hole attacks – what are they and how to prevent them?
The concept behind the watering hole attack is that in order to insert malware (malicious software) into a company, you must stalk an individual or group and place malware on a site that they use and trust. Here’s what you need to know.
Online Sextortion – the blackmailer in your inbox!
Blackmail has been around for as long as shame – since the very moment criminals first discovered the value we hold in keeping that shame hidden. The FBI defines sextortion as “a serious crime that occurs when someone threatens to distribute your private and sensitive...
A brief history of computer viruses
We all know the feeling; a sore throat, sneezing, congestion, a cough, a runny nose…oh no, the dreaded cold virus! No human is immune. Likewise, no computer is immune. How it happens, how it works and how we treat it remain mostly the same for human and computer....
Keeping your small business cyber safe
Starting a business is never easy. One could argue that it’s exponentially more difficult to start and maintain a business today, tomorrow or any day in the future. And if getting a business going in today’s competitive and ever-increasingly saturated world wasn’t...
Cyber Insurance and why you need it!
No one likes seeing a chunk of their hard-earned income disappear at the end or start of every month to something many only see as a fear-peddled waste - insurance. But whether you like or dislike insurance, support it or don’t, every human on the planet likes theft,...
What is a SIM Swap Scam?
In June of this year (2018) an 85-year-old South African pensioner had R300 000 - roughly USD $20 000, stolen from his bank account in a SIM swap scam. A SIM swap scam? SIM Swap fraud (also known as SIM splitting) is a type of account takeover fraud that generally...
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