The ‘Nigerian Prince’ or ‘419’ email scams we’ve all seen take advantage of the age-old premise: people can be greedy and gullible. Or to put it more positively – people are intrinsically positive about the motives of... FULL STORY >

SophosLabs recently discovered that a number of cyber criminals are targeting specific countries when designing ransomware. We talked to John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos, about this new trend. FULL STORY >

Graham Croock, director of IT Audit, Risk and Cyber Lab at BDO South Africa, weighs in on the current state of South African businesses readiness for the threats posed by digital technology. FULL STORY >

Cyber security is an ongoing war that takes place on many different battlefields, with threats primarily coming from three main sources: nation states, hacktivists, and organised crime FULL STORY >

A hacker responsible for the attacks in China on a number of US companies, including Google, may soon be exposed. FULL STORY >