Cyber crime levels rise as law in SA remains vague around prosecution
EVERYTHING in our digitally connected world has the potential to be infiltrated and exploited by cyber criminals. Levels of online fraud, digital crime and corporate espionage are rising steadily, while legislative steps are not being taken quickly enough in response to provide tools with which to combat cybercrime.This exponential growth means that cybercrimes can be perpetrated against those who are without adequate legal recourse. As a result, organisations and individuals need to be vigilant in their own right, and take action to defend against malicious cyber attacks by ensuring that they have a minimum level of security in place, at the very least.READ THIS: Human frailty to Facebook changeThe biggest challenge in cyber law is the fact that cybercrimes have not yet been defined and legislated as crimes under which individuals can be prosecuted. Even if an individual is caught with hacking software in the process of hacking an organisation’s system and is arrested, there is cur...
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