Task 7

Question 7

The top 5 cyber security risks in South Africa:

• Hacktivism
• Cyber theft
• Financial cyber crime
• Mobile matters
• Zero-second matters

With many users on the net we don’t always pay attention to detail and often get exploited by these convincing hackers. It is so easy to be misled by a hacker an in doing this one could loses all his/her hard earned money or even identity. By not checking the page and just filling out ones’ information, we are giving access to those hacking in to our accounts. Or if users do not put passwords on their personal details or don’t update their passwords, this makes it easy for hackers to get into their information.

To avoid hackers from obtaining these personal information, users should check the URL and if there is a lock on it and that it starts with http. Users need to constantly update their passwords, update their anti-virus as well as double check the mail recipient to make sure that its not spam.