Nigeria’s digital landscape may become under siege, if nothing is quickly done to tame the tide of cyber attacks targeting the country in particular and entire continent in general. Cyber attacks driven by financial gain, according to a new Microsoft report have surged, with 52% of incidents motivated by extortion or ransomware. The country’s growing…
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. cybersecurity company F5 closed down 10% on Thursday after disclosing a system breach in which a “highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor” gained long-term access to some systems. The stock had its worst day since April 27, 2022, when the stock fell 12.8%. The company…
Artificial intelligence has long lurked in the shadows of cybersecurity. It has filtered abnormal logons, flagged odd traffic and traced malware signatures. Recently though, with OpenAI, Google and others pushing out large language models, its claws have sharpened. Now AI fights on two fronts. It defends us and attacks through us. In South Africa, we’re…
You don’t have to be a big business to be targeted by cybercrime. In fact, medium-sized businesses are often the easiest to breach, because they are just digital enough to be vulnerable, but not mature enough to be fully protected. Why Cybersecurity Is a Leadership Issue If you are the owner, CEO, MD or GM,…
