People Enablement Services

(Audio) 26 min listen.
Charl Ueckermann, CEO of AVeS Cyber Security, explains how ransomware attacks work, the vulnerability of networks, individuals and infrastructure as well as the protection thereof from a cyber-attack perspective. Charl also weighs in on Thursday’s attack on Joburg’s City Power, with residents unable to carry out ordinary transactions such as buying pre-paid electricity this week.

(Audio) 31 min listen.
There are five new viruses or pieces of malware set loose on the internet every second of the day. Small businesses are especially vulnerable to cybercrime. Fred Roed chats to Charl Ueckermann, CEO of AVeS Cyber Security, about ‘black hat hackers’ and ‘white hat hackers” and their roles. Charl says awareness and proactive monitoring puts you in a place to predict incidents and not simply react. Cyber-attacks come at a high price. The average value of one cyber-attack for small businesses is about R1 million and it shoots up to about R16 million for bigger organisations. Listen and learn how to protect your business.

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SAMSAM (Version 4), also known as MSIL/Samas.A, is a ransomware strain that shares analyses of vulnerabilities on the dark web that cyber actors then use to deploy the ransomware on a network.

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#Ransomware featured in the top news this weekend when the exploit-encryptor-worm WannaCrypt (nicknamed #WannaCry) spread across the world by piggy-backing off the Windows exploit #EternalBlue. Researchers in our security network reported that around 100,000 users saw their computers encrypted in a matter of minutes over the last 72 hours.