By Jan Vermeulen for MyBroadband The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has made changes to the website for its Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) after a security researcher reported a data leak. This leak allowed anyone to obtain the UIF reference...
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Vodacom introduces community-based model to clamp down on battery theft
By Natasha Odendaal for Creamer Media’s Engineering News Telecommunications giant Vodacom has started engaging communities to intensify security around its base stations to guard against vandalism and battery theft. Community members will be recruited, trained...
Competition Commission flooded with complaints
Source: IOL South Africa’s Competition Commission told the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry that since the national disaster was declared in March, it had received a total of 1 354 complaints and tip offs from the public regarding inflated prices. The...
WhatsApp group admins liable for illegal cigarette, alcohol sales
Source: MyBroadband If you are the admin on a Facebook or WhatsApp group, you can be held vicariously liable for illegal cigarette and alcohol sales on that platform. This is the warning from Megan Harrington-Johnson, managing partner at HJW Attorneys, who was...
Eskom restricts power supply to parts of Gauteng
By Sibongile Khumalo for Fin24 Eskom says it has taken the unprecedented decision to restrict electricity supply to parts of residential areas around Johannesburg, where unusual surges in consumption have been recorded. There has been a trend of surges during peak...
Beware Microsoft Teams password-stealing scams
Source: Abnormal Security Attackers have been impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams in order to steal the credentials of employees. Recently, Microsoft Teams has seen one of the largest increases in users as a result of the shift to remote work given the...
SA’s worst-ever loadshedding may begin soon
In a recent interview with MyBroadband, energy expert Ted Blom said he expects that as mining and smelting come back online under new lockdown regulations, the heavy demand increases could see Eskom face problems as soon as next week. As the country heads into winter,...
Malware infects 1.69m Android handsets in South Africa
Source: Business Ghana Secure-D from Upstream detected 1.69 million malware-infected android devices in South Africa last year. Within many popular apps, Malware is lurking unseen and committing background fraud that targets advertisers, operators and consumers. The...
Hackers sell 500 000 Zoom credentials on the dark web
By Hemani Sheth Mumbai for The Business Line Hackers are selling over 500 000 Zoom accounts on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, for free according to a recent report by web platform Bleeping Computer. Bleeping computer in...
WhatsApp group admins may be criminally liable for fake news
By James de Villiers for Business Insider SA Media law experts believe WhatsApp admins in SA may be held liable for false information shared on their groups. However, they would need to know that the information being shared is false, and do nothing about it....
Thief who used Standard Bank data to steal R300m fled to North Korea
By James de Villiers for Business Insider SA The North Korean connection in a brazen R300-million heist in Japan, which used stolen data from Standard Bank, has been confirmed in a new report. The mastermind of the 2016 operation – which involved more than 100...
SA sees spike in network attacks
According to Kaspersky, a major spike in network attacks took place in South Africa last week. Affected devices increased from 20,000-30,000 to about 310,000 in the period spanning from 15 – 21 March. This has coincided with an increase in remote working in the...
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