The corporate toilet: a hacking hotspot
There is a long list of consumer devices that can be hacked and the information used to access corporate or personal data. Since the Black Hat security conference in September 2013, the toilet has now been added to that list, and if something as innocuous and...SA comes under malware attack
South African businesses face unprecedented levels of cyber-attacks, as global security vulnerabilities and threats against systems, applications and personal networks have reached their highest-ever recorded level. According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report,...IBM leverages big data to fight TB
IBM and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) have announced plans to research new treatment approaches to fight tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. IBM’s big data analytics technologies will be put to work on bacterial genetics and...Operation Windigo infects Unix servers
A widespread cybercriminal campaign that has seized control of over 25 000 Unix servers worldwide has been uncovered by security researchers at Eset, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and other agencies. The attack,...