While organisations should always do everything in their power to prevent and mitigate these attacks, they must also understand what legal protections are available to them. In South Africa, the most relevant piece of legislation is the Cybercrimes Act No.19 of 2020. Officially signed into law ...
South African banking sectorThe South African common law has proven to be ineffective in addressing cybercrime. The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, Act 25 of 2002 ("ECT") was introduced to address inter alia cybercrime in South Africa. Whilst the advent of the ECT is lauded, ...
This discussion is aimed at demonstrating that South Africa is no longer a safe haven for cybercriminals. On the 1st of June 2021, the President of the Republic of South Africa signed the Cybercrimes ActFootnote 1 into law. This is the law which criminalises unlawful activities taking place...
The government cannot fight cybercapture on its own. Most of the present cyber expertise lies in the private sector. The private sector is basically running a major part of South Africa's critical information infrastructures—such as for banks, internet service providers and cellphone service companie...
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Transnational corruption, transparency, and international asset forfeitureloomed large in coverage. Valentina Lana and Michel Sapin wrote about the impact of the Sapin II Act on the extraterritorial application of U.S. law and on cooperation between France and the U.S. in combating transnational corr...
Cruz, E.M., Sajo, T.J. (2015). Cybersex as Affective Labour: Critical Interrogations of the Philippine ICT Framework and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. In: Chib, A., May, J., Barrantes, R. (eds) Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South. Springer, Singapore...
POPIA in South Africa and several state laws in the US. Sanctions also become significantly harsher. For example, the South African version of GDPR includes, among other penalties, imprisonment of up to 10 years for major privacy violations. The newly enacted Personal Information Protection Law (...
Cybercrime simply put, is any form of criminal activity that is constructively accomplished by the use orabuse of technology. Common examples of cybercrime include the unleashing of malware onto networks to cripple themand their constituent nodes, just ...
Cybercrime is rising rapidly in India. Developing economies such as India face unique cybercrime risks. This paper examines cybercrime and cybersecurity in India. The literature on which this paper draws is diverse, encompassing the work of economists, criminologists, institutionalists and international...