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What’s coming to WhatsApp in 2021? In October 2020 we gave you a sneak preview of the WhatsApp features and updates planned for users this year. It would seem that many of these updates have since been enabled, and a few more have been added. Let’s take a look. Users can expect a deeper integration […]

If you’re a Spotify user and have experienced some disruption with your account access, you may have been taken for a song by credential stuffing op that was recently in full swing. Not too long ago, a research team stumbled across an open Elasticsearch database jam-packed with more than 72GB of data containing over 380 […]

A year-long investigation dubbed, Operation Falcon, jointly run by INTERPOL and Group-IB working closely with the Nigeria Police Force, was tasked with identifying and locating cybercrime threats. The task force spent a considerable amount of time trying to deactivate a massive phishing ring that has targeted over 50 000 victims in a major global scam. […]

Merely having a security policy that outlines acceptable and expected employee behaviour doesn’t seem to be enough to inspire employee security behaviour changes, regardless of how big or small the enterprise is. Over time, it has been proven that a human-centred system and approach is needed where staff members are kept accountable for their security […]

It was somewhere in the mid 90’s that QR codes, short for “quick response”, became really popular in the automotive industry in Japan. Mobile phones came with QR code readers and the average citizen soon got used to scanning a printed QR code to get more information on products, scanning electronic tickets, and even tracking […]

With 2021 just around the corner, people are beginning to look to the big names in the digital world for their intended updates to their business model. PayPal is one big name that’s not planning to disappoint. In fact, the company has great plans for its digital wallet platform as well as its various apps. […]

Covid-19 wasn’t the only pandemic to take the world by storm this year. As it turns out, hackers unleashed a pandemic of their own, mostly in the form of the ransomware and data breaches that swept the world. It would seem that when there’s more scope for remote work to be done, there’s more risk […]

When the world retreated and people started working from home at the beginning of 2020, data encryption and security were not yet top of mind for everyone. As face-to-face meetings migrated to remote meetings and new remote working software applications became a necessity, ‘Zoom’ was suddenly one of the new buzz words. This still relatively […]

According to statistics, cloud computing annual subscriptions will reach a whopping $1.7 billion by 2024 in South Africa alone. That’s saying a lot considering that the annual subscriptions in 2018 only reached a value of $370 million. The forecasts show an annual increase in subscriptions of 29% thanks to the evolution of cloud-based software. Aside […]

Let’s talk about data – your company data to be more specific, and of course your ransomware backup plan! Your data is probably one of the most valuable assets your business will ever have; valuable to you and sadly, just as valuable to cybercriminals. The data your business collects can be used to make better […]