Cybercrime law aims to prevent cybercrime and keep people (and their countries) safe from criminals, terrorists, and other cybercrime-committing entities. Since cybercrimes are often borderless, the laws regulating them also aim to define whose jurisdiction they fall under. The interesting and, to some [...]
Cybercrimes are on the rise, and your cybersecurity efforts should be too. Cybersecurity does not have to cost you an arm and a leg, but it can save you an arm and a leg if done properly. Small businesses can [...]
Cybercrime continues to be an important issue that all organisations are trying to manage. But now, in the era of artificial intelligence (AI), there are even more challenges when dealing with cybercrime. So understanding the impact of cybercrime and AI [...]
Weâre creating a space for interested people and stakeholders to come and talk about cybercrimes in the South African context. This is important because fighting crime takes a coordinated effort between the prosecuting authority, the police, forensic experts, lawyers [...]
Since 2021, health and pharmaceutical companies have come under severe cyber-attacks. Cybercrime involving health-related data is a global concern because of the steep increase in these attacks. Therefore, information security teams are beefing up processes in preventing cybercrime in healthcare. [...]
Social media poses lots of risks. Many of these risks stem from the fact that the lines between our professional and personal lives are blurring. We are taking our work home with us and often bringing our personal lives to [...]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) published a revised version of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the investigation, search, access, or seizure of electronic evidence in terms of the Cybercrimes Act. The comment period ended on 15 August 2022. [...]
The Cybercrimes Act places strict legal obligations on financial institutions. For example, financial institutions must report cybercrimes to the police, and store evidence about cybercrimes that someone may have committed. The Act imposes steep penalties on financial institutions that do [...]
The President of South Africa has proclaimed that certain sections of the Cybercrimes Act commence on 1 December 2021. Now that the Act has commenced, you may have questions like: which sections have already commenced? When will the entire law commence? [...]
President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signed the Cybercrimes Act into law to protect the country against cybercrimes. The Act introduces malicious communications as a crime and guilty parties could incur fines or face jail time. Now that several sections of the [...]
The President of South Africa has signed the Cybercrimes Act into law. This means that South Africa now has a comprehensive law to regulate cybercrime. The wait is finally over, and it is now time for you to take action. [...]
The Cybercrimes Act has a significant impact on many organisations and individuals. Unfortunately, the impact is mostly negative and a bit scary. Correctional services are going to have to build more prisons to lock up everyone who commits a cybercrime. Few [...]
