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The Visa Stay Secure study highlights the over-confidence of consumers in the CEMEA region in recognizing and avoiding fraud, leading to an increased risk of becoming victims of scams. Despite 56% of consumers considering themselves savvy enough to avoid online and phone scams, 90% tend to disregard warning signs of online criminal activity. The study […]
VIRUS ATTACK WARNING – BELARUS We are witnessing a spike in the number of security threats in South Africa. This week, we have experienced a new attack in South Africa, namely the “Belarus Phishing Expedition”. Customers affected will have malware imbedded into their network via an email. Once data is collected/harvested by the perpetrators they […]
Staff in the IT support process have a lot to deal with; we all know that. They have to remember the ins and outs of every system under the sun, on top of expectations that they should be able to fix any issue which comes their way. Being a support tech often means being invisible […]
Motherboard reported: “A quickly-spreading, world-wide ransomware outbreak has reportedly hit targets in Spain, France, Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. On Tuesday, a wide range of private businesses reportedly suffered ransomware attacks. Although it is not clear if every case is connected, at least several of them appear to be related to the same strain of […]
What’s the Difference Between a “Trojan Horse”, a “Worm”, and a “Virus”? (skip) There’s no shortage of confusing terminology in the computer biz. With the advent of malicious software, more terminology has been created that only make things less clear. The good news is that it’s not really that difficult; in fact, you needn’t understand […]
Ransomware used in almost three in four health malware attacks in 2016. A new Verizon report finds that the overwhelming majority of health care-related malware attacks in 2016 were ransomware—72% of them, to be exact. And the only industry that has more of these kinds of cyberattacks launched at it is the financial services sector […]
Locky ransomware reappeared with a vengeance Friday, this time not using Office documents combined with social engineering to have the user enable macros, but with a PDF that has a Word file hidden within, which executes a macro script when opened by the user. This scenario allows the phishing email to bypass sandboxes. Our friends […]