We’re 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 [...]
In Safi v Gascoigne, Safi sued Gascoigne Randon and Associates, a conveyancing firm, for a loss of R889,308.50 from a business email compromise (BEC). Who should care about this judgment and why? The public because they need to be aware [...]
In Hartog v Daly, the court held Hartog liable for monies that he paid into a fraudster's bank account. The fraudster unlawfully intercepted an email communication between Hartog and his client by sending Hartog an email with instructions to [...]
In Buchler v Minister of SAPS, Buchler succeeded in having two search and seizure warrants set aside. SAPS and the Hawks seized materials from Buchler's place of business, an internet café. The police believed that Buchler was using the materials [...]
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 [...]
Crime affects everyone and in future cybercrime (and cyber security) is going to affect people more and more. No one is safe - it impacts the rich and the poor: Anyone with a mobile phone in their pocket. Anyone who has [...]
R v Douvenga was one of the first cybercrime judgments to address unauthorised access to data, commonly known as hacking. In this case, the court had to decide whether Gloudina Magrieta Douvenga, an employee at Rentmeester Assurance Limited, was guilty of [...]
