Cyber Monday deals: History, global trends and how to shop smart in 2025
Cyber Monday deals now drive record online spending. Here’s the history, global trends and how to shop them smartly and safely in 2025.
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Cloudflare restores services after major global outage affecting top websites
Cloudflare, which handles about a fifth of the world’s web traffic, has restored services after a global outage that briefly took sites like X, ChatGPT and Spotify offline.
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More than 183 million credentials, including Gmail passwords, found in massive data dump
A new cyber report has confirmed that over 183 million accounts — including Gmail passwords — were leaked in one of the largest data breaches recorded this year.
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Cyber attack cripples St Paul’s IT systems, state of emergency declared
A cyber attack on the city of St Paul forced the shutdown of all IT systems and triggered a state of emergency as investigators probe the digital breach.
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South Africa’s new national security strategy warns of rising threats to state stability
South Africa has unveiled a five-year national security strategy to counter threats such as terrorism, cybercrime, and foreign interference.
Technology
Google mum as researchers warn 16 billion passwords leaked
Researchers have uncovered what may be the largest data breach in history, involving 16 billion leaked login credentials, including for Google accounts.
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OpenAI spearheads $500bn ‘Stargate Project’: Here’s what you must know about it
OpenAI has announced “The Stargate Project,” a $500 billion initiative to develop AI infrastructure in the U.S. Here’s what you need to know.
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SASSA plans to roll out facial recognition to curb SRD fraud
The social security agency had piloted the Face ID program in the past but faced serious push-back from civil society.
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Airports affected by CyberStrike global outage
A major global outage linked to CrowdStrike and Microsoft Azure disrupted flights worldwide, causing significant delays at airports. UPDATE: South African Airways released a statement confirming their operations have been impacted by the CyberStrike global outage. These airports were affected by the CyberStrike global outage On Friday, a global IT outage caused by issues at CrowdStrike and Microsoft Azure led American Airlines, United, and Delta to request the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implement a global ground stop on all flights. This unprecedented move aimed to manage the widespread disruptions affecting airlines, media, and banks. London Gatwick Airport (LGW) London Gatwick Airport (LGW) was among the affected locations, advising passengers of possible delays during check-in
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Microsoft outage on Friday, 19 July 2024: Here’s what you must know
The Microsoft outage impacted numerous services, including PowerBI, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Teams, and the Microsoft 365 admin centre.
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CyberStrike global outage: Here’s everything we know
CrowdStrike and Microsoft were identified as the central players in the IT disruption.
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CSIR partners with Take Note IT for ‘Cyber Excellence Academy’ launch
The Cyber Excellence Academy aims to revolutionise the cybersecurity landscape by empowering people with knowledge on digital threats.
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AO3 blackout caused by DDoS and these other issues
The popular fanfiction platform, Archive of Our Own (AO3), has been hit by a series of disruptive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, resulting in the website being offline since Monday, 10 July 2023. AO3 blackout caused by DDos attacks: Here’s what we know AO3 addressed the issue through its official Twitter account on Monday, confirming that the servers had been overwhelmed by a DDoS attack, causing the site to collapse under the heavy traffic. PLEASE NOTE: The third-party content below is shared on our platform for journalistic purposes. Swisher Post, its parent company, partners and affiliates shall not be held liable for any consequence that arises from the journalistic duties performed in sharing this content. The
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Filecoin: A Decentralised Storage Network for Data Retrieval and Distribution
The demand for decentralised storage networks has increased significantly due to the increasing number of apps that require secure storage.
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The Digital Age and Cybersecurity: Has Technological Advancement Jeopardised our Privacy?
Here’s how technology advancements threaten your internet safety.
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Microsoft identifies ‘potential’ issue causing global outage
Microsoft’s network status was ‘service degradation’ on Wednesday morning. Here’s what this means for Outlook and Office 365 users.
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How to enable a Two-step Verification to secure your WhatsApp account
Did you know that you can make your WhatsApp even more secure with Two-step Verification? Here’s how you can enable the feature.
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TikTok sponsors US Cyber Games – Everything you need to know
TikTok is exploring ways to support cyber athletes and teams around the world.
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Instagram announced it will be defaulting minor accounts to private – what we know
Instagram will default users under 16 to private accounts. Here’s what we know.
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REvil ransomware attack: Kaseya obtains decryptor key
Kaseya says they have teams actively helping customers affected by the ransomware to restore their environments.