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May 6, 2020
3 min

Remote Access Fraud

Imagine falling victim to Remote Access Fraud… You wake up one morning to find you’ve lost some money. Not the loose change your children sometimes “lovingly” borrow out of your wallet from time to time, but the kind that really worries you and shows up on your bank balance as obviously down from when you checked it the night before. Your mind does a quick check… “no it’s not month-end; no it isn’t dreaded debit order time; and no I didn’t purchase anything online recently…mm

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COVID-19 outbreak: How to avoid cyber criminals taking advantage

Esteffan Coetzee

Apr 5, 2020
4 min

COVID-19 outbreak: How to avoid cyber criminals taking advantage

We have been overrun these past few months with everything Coronavirus, COVID-19-related, and with it, a near-constant stream of information and disinformation sent to us/available from/on every platform known and used by man. The world has gone a little crazy. The problem here – besides the fear, panic and already crippling, economic ripple-effects from the virus itself – are the opportunistic cyber criminals who revel in exploiting this fear and chaos in order to steal mone

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Cameras and Microphones | Are you being watched?

Esteffan Coetzee

Mar 3, 2020
5 min

Cameras and Microphones | Are you being watched?

Are we being spied on via our cameras and microphones on our personal devices? Built-in device cameras and microphones are great. They allow us to easily communicate face-to-face with friends and family even if they are on the other side of the globe. They allow journalists to interview people in far flung corners of the world, and they allow entrepreneurs in remote locations to do business with people in big cities across the world. The problem is that these tiny cameras and

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Online Gaming and Cyber Crime – are you playing, or being played?

Esteffan Coetzee

Feb 11, 2020
3 min

Online Gaming and Cyber Crime – are you playing, or being played?

When it comes to games – especially online gaming, it’s one thing to play, but it’s altogether something else to be played! Three interesting facts about the global online gaming industry… The worth of the PC online game market worldwide is expected to reach $45.5 billion by 2021. (Statista, Nov 2019) It is estimated there will be 2.7 billion gamers by 2021. Almost a third of the human race! (Statista, Aug 2019) The number 1 game for awarded prize money in 2018/19 was ‘Dota 2

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Get your Free Resources for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Esteffan Coetzee

Sep 17, 2019
2 min

Get your Free Resources for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Are you and your organisation ready for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2019? This is your opportunity to share key cybersecurity knowledge with your networks and help build a more secure community! What are we doing during Cybersecurity Awareness Month? GoldPhish is proud to provide free CyberMonth2019 educational resources you can distribute through the month of October. The toolkit will help you inform, educate, and empower your networks on simple Cybersecurity controls and

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Esteffan Coetzee

Jun 6, 2019
3 min

Access Control in the digital world

We all want to feel safe. We all want to feel secure. We all want to know that the things we value are safe and secure. Safety and Security. On December 10th 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stating – “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of persons”. We all want to feel safe. We all want to feel secure. We all want to know that the things we value are safe and secure. The f

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Esteffan Coetzee

Apr 8, 2019
10 min

Facebook and fencing yours in

It’s safe to say Facebook isn’t safe. Just last month (Thursday 21 March 2019) Facebook announced yet another data breach – the third in a year (we know of), this time involving up to 600 million passwords stored in plain text and exposed internally to up to 20,000 employees of the social network giant. The news caps a long period of trouble for Facebook over the way it handles and protects user data. In September last year, it said information on 50 million users had been ex

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Esteffan Coetzee

Feb 13, 2019
5 min

Blockchain Security Benefits

In building, a wall made of 500 connected, overlapping small concrete blocks with steel is stronger than a wall made of one, large concrete “block” without steel. If you wanted to keep a single letter, one “block” of information or an individual document of private data safe and secure ten or 2000 years ago chances are you would have kept it under lock and key in one “secret” place, and/or possibly encrypted it with a cypher – like the famous Roman General Julius Caesar did w

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Watering hole attacks – what are they and how to prevent them?

Esteffan Coetzee

Jan 25, 2019
4 min

Watering hole attacks – what are they and how to prevent them?

A watering hole is a waterhole from which animals regularly drink, right? True. Or a pub, bar or restaurant – any place where people gather socially, right? Also true. Well in the world of cyber security there is a third, which derives its name from the first two – a ‘Watering hole attack.’ The concept behind the watering hole attack is that in order to insert malware (malicious software) into a company, you must stalk an individual or group and place malware on a site that t

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Esteffan Coetzee

Oct 23, 2018
3 min

What is a SIM Swap Scam?

In June of this year (2018) an 85-year-old South African pensioner had R300 000 – roughly USD $20 000, stolen from his bank account in a SIM swap scam. A SIM swap scam? SIM Swap fraud (also known as SIM splitting) is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication or two-step verification, where the second factor or step is an SMS or a call placed to a mobile telephone. How it works… The fraud centres around exploiting a mobile

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Destruction and disposal of sensitive data

Esteffan Coetzee

Sep 12, 2018
4 min

Destruction and disposal of sensitive data

Nothing short of grinding your physically-stored data into granola dust for scrap-yard-hungry robots will do. Only physical drive destruction will offer definitive disposal of sensitive data for those unwanted, damaged or dated devices. Data destruction is the process of destroying data stored on tapes, hard disks and other forms of electronic media so that it is completely unreadable and cannot be accessed or used for unauthorised purposes. Everything from USB flash drives,

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Saying too much on your Social Sites? Social Media Privacy and Security

Esteffan Coetzee

Jul 11, 2018
4 min

Saying too much on your Social Sites? Social Media Privacy and Security

Can you imagine a world without social media? No Snapchat, no Instagram, no Twitter, no Facebook! A world where children and adults woke up in the morning and got excited about playing outdoors and seeing each other in the flesh, rather than being sucked into their phones; checking their feeds, likes and comments – zombies to the real world around them. A world where security and privacy were tangible, physical problems we could easily identify and protect ourselves against.

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What is Ransomware and how do we prevent it?

Esteffan Coetzee

Apr 17, 2018
3 min

What is Ransomware and how do we prevent it?

Is there anything more frustrating and problematic than being locked out of your own house or car; or more to the point, your own computer, tablet or phone? It’s annoying enough if we ourselves do the locking out – losing the keys or forgetting our passwords, but what if an outsider – an attacker, purposely and maliciously locks you out? In today’s world, few possessions are as integral to the flow and success of life than the devices we use to communicate with and connect to

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Esteffan Coetzee

Nov 20, 2017
7 min

What’s the Point of Cyber Insurance?

Recently, in one of the first social engineering fraud cases to be heard in a Canadian Court, the court ruled that social engineering attacks were not covered under the terms of a plaintiff’s cyber insurance policy. Following a successful social engineering attack, including the use of targeted telephone, fax, and email communications, an individual scammed a company’s accounts department into transferring approximately $338,000 into fraudulent bank accounts. The victim compa

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Esteffan Coetzee

Oct 31, 2017
4 min

Cybersecurity: What you need to know

As Cybersecurity Awareness month concludes, you may be asking yourself ‘Why should I be concerned about cybersecurity?‘ Simply put, cyber crime is a growing threat to our economy. Make no mistake about it, almost everybody owns something of value to a cyber criminal. Customer data just waiting to be mined, credit card details to steal, money, passwords, personal information… the list is long. With figures for cyber crime rising each year, it’s now more important than ever to

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