Nedbank banks on the metaverse

As the digital economic voyage into the metaverse starts to accelerate, major players in trade and industry are poised to develop custom experiences in this digitally-enhanced world, which is being heralded as the future of ecommerce. Leading financial institution...

Self-spreading stealer targets gamers on YouTube

Kaspersky researchers spotted an unusual malicious bundle (a collection of malicious programs distributed in the form of a single installation file, self-extracting archive or other file with installer-type functionality) targeting gamers on YouTube. Its main payload...

SA consumers demand human interaction from banks

While AI is projected to bring in billions for the global banking industry in the next few years, 2022 consumer research conducted by BPO provider, Merchants, suggests that going fully digital may not be the answer for South African banks who want to keep customers...

Credit cards consume less electricity than bitcoin

Visa, MasterCard, and American Express combined consume less than 1% of Bitcoin electricity, according to new data from StockApps.com Speaking on the data, StockApps.com specialist, Edith Reads, says. “Most people prefer cashless transactions. Bitcoin and credit...

SASE bucks economic uncertainty with strong growth

The strong enterprise appetite for network and security transformation drove robust growth in SASE related SD-WAN networking and security service edge (SSE) security technologies, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. “Even in an environment of...

Intel leads in addressing technology shifts

Kathy Gibson is at VMware vForum 2022 – Intel is rapidly changing and innovating as technology shifts to address the global move to digitalisation. “Technology has never been more important to humanity than it is today,” says Nathan Reddy, industry...