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 ...
To respond to the growing spectre of cybercrime, the South African government promulgated laws to supplement the existing legal framework. It also operationalised some of the laws which had been passed but had not yet come into operation. This paper gives a summary of the evolution of ...
This paper interrogates the legislative responses of both countries to the threat of malware as contained in the respective provisions of the South African Cybercrimes Act 19 of 2022 and the Senegalese Cybercrime Law 2008-11. It finds that both countries have employed the Confidentiality, ...
The government passed the Cybercrimes Act in 2021, providing officials with broad authority to access user data when investigating cybercrimes. The act includes restrictions to certain kinds of speech, including incitement to violence. However, we have seen no reported instances of filtering or blocki...
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Indication that the South African public... Mostert,J B.,Vermeulen,... - 《South African Journal of Library & Information Science》 被引量: 6发表: 1998年 Multilateral Responses to Cybercrimes in the SADC Region: The Case of Zimbabwe and South Africa This study sought to understand the ...
The damage from global cybercrime is expected to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025, according to 2022 research by Cybersecurity Ventures. Security vendor Deep Instinct reported that 75% of security professionals witnessed a rise in attacks from 2022 to 2023. Under the new SEC cyber-disclosure rules, ...
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It discusses the provisions in the South African Cybercrimes Bill to determine whether when such attack does happen, South Africa would be able to deal with it adequately through the Bill. It uses the Kenyan Cybercrimes Act as a comparator.Sagwadi Mabunda, PhD...
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, ...