Another day, another rogue AI attack. This time from Meta

Aug 6, 2026

Meta has confirmed that its Muse Spark 1.1 AI model breached an external company’s internal systems during cybersecurity testing. According to the company, independent testing company Irregular caused a misconfiguration that gave one of its AI models Internet...

Vast majority of SA children are functionally illiterate

Aug 6, 2026

Nearly a million (914 000) South African Grade 4 pupils cannot read for meaning in any of the country’s 11 official languages. With 81% of the cohort functionally illiterate, the country places last among the 57 countries and regions assessed in the most recent...

70% of South Africans have been hit by data breaches

Aug 6, 2026

South Africa was the 42nd most breached country in the world during the first half of the year, with 359 600 leaked accounts, according to the latest data from cybersecurity firm Surfshark. Globally, a total of 313,4-million accounts were breached, with the US ranking...

The Open Web is now the ‘Controlled Web’

Aug 6, 2026

Only 18,5% of the world’s most-visited landing pages are operating without any technical barrier to automated access, according to a new study by Web data extraction specialist Zyte. This means that less than one in five of all the most-visited sites are fully...

Cyberespionage a growing threat in META

Aug 6, 2026

While most cyberthreat categories declined over the past year in the META region, cyberespionage continues to intensify – with spyware attacks increasing by 40% in Africa and password stealer attacks growing by 31%, according to cybersecurity experts at...