The Connected Home’s Next Wave Report

An F-Secure report on the next wave that connected homes are likely to encounter takes a look at how a new breed of early adopters with families is leading a drive to make smart homes more functional. The report takes a look at consumer surveys from 11 countries, including South Africa, and finds how the explosion of devices that go online began in the middle of the last decade, led by the massive adoption of smart TVs. This then led to the creation of smart home entertainment centres with internet-connected streaming devices, speaker systems and gaming consoles

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Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents are the essential foundation for detecting and responding to attacks on your organisation. They ensure that all endpoint activity is captured and logged, and should contain a rich suite of features to enable Continuous Response. EDR is a rapidly growing area of cyber security and IT disaster recovery, augmenting standard endpoint products and providing better protection against sophisticated attacks together with the necessary information to help recover from attacks.

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How to go incognito and browse in private

Websites and services track you online. Read on to find out who is tracking you, why they do it, and how you can stop it. Internet service providers can track everything you do online, and most websites track their visitors. Websites often track the actions visitors take outside their sites as well.

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How to keep your money safe online

Whether you want to support your local businesses in times of crisis, make use of online sales, or shop necessities, don’t let cyber criminals take your money. We are all now forced to spend time inside and online. Despite the hard times, web criminals haven’t gone any­where. In fact, online crime has increased globally, and the Covid-19 outbreak has fueled numerous phishing and online scam campaigns. Here are 5 ways to keep your money safe online.

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Spotted in the Wild

It’s been only 4 months now since the end of 2020 and there has been no slow-down for cyber criminals and their crafty campaigns. 2021 has already seen some of the most sophisticated hacks and breaches having taken place internationally with no end in sight unfortunately.

The following are some of the major campaigns that we’ve witnessed in March and April alone this year already:

Office 365 ‘Payment Received.html’ phishing
Standard Bank ‘SBSA_Statement.html’ phishing
Takealot/Samsung competition phishing malware
419 Phishing/Fraud

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This bulletin is intended to increase the security awareness in organisations by providing useful information to help enhance security and safety when using computing devices and the Internet.

Be sure to consider some of the cyber threats out there and consider these tips for protecting yourself and your devices. Until our next mailer, you can check out all the great resources we have available on our website.

The Cybervision Team

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