SA infrastructure vulnerable to simply being ‘switched off’

28 May 2015 - 09:06
By Graeme Hosken

Crucial gaps around the clarity of South Africa's laws are potentially crippling the country‚ rendering it blind to its own critical infrastructure vulnerability - giving organised crime gangs the potential to bring everything to a grinding halt‚ cyber security experts say. With hackers being specially groomed by crime groups and embedded in organisations vital for a country's functioning‚ they say‚ it's imperative the government's cyber and law enforcement agencies have the legal ability to sc...

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