This is how recent DDoS attacks have disrupted internet services in South Africa, affecting businesses and households alike, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. When you read that a hacking attack is dangerous, it generally ...

South Africa's internet infrastructure is under attack, with hosting providers hit and a ransom demanded of one of them.

Several South African hosting providers and other Internet infrastructure companies were knocked offline due to sustained Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.

Internet shutdowns, as a rule, are enacted by governments with the ability to order internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect, throttle, or restrict access to the internet. Staging a shutdown as ...

An internet watchdog has reminded small businesses they are not exempt from cyber-attacks, after a law firm in Napier was hit in January. Langley Twigg Law said it was hit by a cyber attack affecting ...