Hetzner and other web hosting companies hacked in South Africa

Hetzner announced on their website that sensitive client dat a has been compromised. The Information Technology Website (it-web.co.za) knows of at least two other South African ISP's that has been…

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Ultrasonic laws required to protect humans

As experimentation with smartphones and other devices are reaching maturity and are being used in production, South Africa needs new laws with regards ultrasonic sound (all human inaudible sound). It…

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Cloud strategies for small business in South Africa

Small business in South Africa has little benefit in adopting a total cloud strategy. Many small businesses also end up signing recurring billing contracts for cloud based services without considering…

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BadRabbit Ransomware now also in South Africa

If you are infected with ransomware in South Africa quite probably your data is gone. After Petya (the ransomware where you could pay and get your data unlocked) came ransomware…

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DNS over TLS

DNS over TLS in a nutshell: The intention of DNS over TLS is to encrypt traffic between the user and the DNS server in order for the ISP (or others)…

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Trusting your anti virus software

The top South African Anti Virus Software used in South Africa are (in no particular order) Norton, AVG, AVAST, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, McAfee and ESSET. With the latest revelations that Kaspersky…

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co.za DNSSEC howto

Nkosi Webhosting has added a step by step guide on how to configure DNSSEC on your co.za domain names. DNSSEC is a very important security protocol that ensures that your…

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URGENT SECURITY ISSUE: Update your client DNS

DNS translates names into numbers, if you type in : Google.com your device uses DNS to know where to find Google.com There are some ISP DNS servers that are returning…

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