Research

Password and username reuse is major threat to enterprise security

Digital Shadows, the industry leader in digital risk management, have unveiled research into some of the main techniques cybercriminals are using to target organisations using stolen credentials which have been reused...

PWC’s Digital IQ Survey shows South Africa is at risk of falling behind

Most organisations around the world have not done enough to keep up with the digital era – and leadership is falling short, with many chief executives not yet fully engaged in the initiatives of digital transformation. A...

DDoS cyberattacks double due to insufficient security controls for IoT...

The number of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks doubled from 3% to 6% in 2016, due to the lack of sufficient security controls of Internet-connected Internet of things (IoT)...

Mobile ransomware more than trebled in Q1, 2017

The global nightmare of ransomware shows no sign of slowing down, with the volume of mobile ransomware rising over three-fold (3.5 times) during the first few months of the year, according to Kaspersky Lab’s Malware R...

Wannacry: an analysis of competing hypotheses by Digital Shadows

On 12 May 2017, as the WannaCry ransomware spread across computer networks across the world, a variety of explanations also began to worm their way through the information security community. Who was responsible for...

SANS Endpoint Survey finds cybercriminals are changing attack strategies

Highlighting the change in cybercriminals’ focus from attacking technical vulnerabilities to now exploiting user behaviour, SANS Institute, in its recent survey titled ‘SANS 2017 Endpoint Risks and Protections’, found that ...

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