Aug 19, 2015
Details of about 37-million users of the Ashley Madison cheating site have been dumped online as hackers make good on their promise to leak details gleaned from last month’s hack of the site. The details, which have yet to be confirmed as legitimate, are contained in a massive file that contains personal information and some credit card details of site users. Security expert Brian Krebs, writing on his Krebs on Security blog, believes the files could be the real deal – a fact he points out that Ashleymadison.com subscribers would wish otherwise.
Aug 17, 2015
Power utility companies and stakeholders across Africa anticipate a brighter and different outlook for the sector in the decade ahead, according to a new report from PwC. PwC’s Africa Power and Utilities Survey polled 51 senior power and utility sector executives from 15 African countries. They continued to voice concern about some of the immediate risks to the power system, but are also optimistic about the longer-term prospects for electricity in Africa.
Aug 14, 2015
Thanks to a new moon, the Perseid meteor shower on Wednesday and Thursday nights was one of the best in years. Although the view of the meteor shower was best in the northern hemisphere, skywatchers in South Africa caught a glimpse of it as well. The Perseids have been observed for at least 2 000 years and are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years.
Aug 13, 2015
South Africa may be suffering currently, but glimmers of hope are starting to emerge that undermine the more negative perceptions plaguing the local economy. This is according to Johann Els, senior economist for Old Mutual Investment Group, explaining in the company’s quarterly investment briefing that, while local growth is struggling under the burden of issues, such as electricity shortages, commodities under pressure and a weak rand, positive signs, such as an improving trade deficit and inflation figures, could be slightly buoying the economic outlook.
