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South Africa’s largest city shut down its website and billing systems as a precautionary measure after a group hacked into the municipal authority’s network system.

Emsisoft’s latest report reveals that 621 government entities, healthcare service providers, school districts, colleges and universities in the US have been affected by ransomware this year.

As research finds ransomware attacks against governments on the rise, the US Conference of Mayors has passed a resolution calling on cities not to pay assailants after cyber-attacks.

Smart Cities World’s regular blogger and data security expert, Colin Tankard of Digital Pathways, dissects the recent malware attack

Study finds information security programmes not keeping up with IoT & BYOD security threats

Organisations must prepare for even deadlier strains of the malware in the future which will be more pervasive and resilient, says Cisco