Together with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Edge Computing, 5G, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, the Internet of Behaviour is one of the top tech trends of 2021.
Africa has more than 500 million Internet users, placing the region ahead of other regions such as North America, South America, and the Middle East. The leading countries are Kenya with 83% of its population being online, Nigeria with 60% and South Africa with 56%.
Redwoods, also known as Sequoioideae, include the largest and tallest trees in the world. That is fine, some of you might argue, but what it has to do with cybersecurity? A lot, we would say.
The latest cybersecurity attacks – such as the one on the Transnet in South Africa – once again confirmed the importance of sound cybersecurity. And that security largely rests on a sound (cybersecurity) culture.
The wider American public was afforded an unwanted glimpse into the Wild West world of ransomware this week, after a cyber-attack crippled Colonial Pipeline, causing fuel shortages across the eastern seaboard and states of emergency to be declared in four states, reports The Guardian.
The latest ransomware attack on the US Colonial Pipeline has sparked a discussion about how the attack happened – with many cybersecurity professionals pointing out a phishing attack as a probable cause.
Catphishing stats show that 82% of romance scam victims are women and those over 50 are defrauded out of the most money.
Online dating is an undeniable part of finding love in the modern world. By the end of 2020, upwards of 32 million Americans were using online dating services, and the industry is expected to surpass one billion dollars in revenue by 2021. Statistics released by Tinder and other dating apps highlight a 10-15% increase in use from February to March 2020 as well as increases in messages sent.
Phished people were exposed to an attack for an average of 17.5 hours before antivirus software discovered it. With pharming, it takes much longer.
Phishing and pharming schemes are still one of the grimmest threats to companies and individuals. Even internet giants like Google and Facebook got conned out of hundreds of millions USD via phishing and pharming schemes.
Most botnets are currently deployed for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks but can also be used for delivering spyware, email spam, phishing, ‘click fraud’, stilling confidential information or the bitcoin mining.
The world has changed dramatically in the three months since our last update of the World Economic Outlook in January, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The April’s IMF World Economic Outlook projects global growth in 2020 to fall to -3 percent. This is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a major revision over a very short period.
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