South Africans using digital payments big target for scammers

According to the Kaspersky Digital Payment survey, 35% of respondents from South Africa faced phishing scams when using online banking or mobile wallet services. Forty three percent have personally encountered fake websites, and 59% experienced scams (via texts or...

Big gaps found in workplace cybersecurity best practices

A significant 44% of employees haven’t gone through employer-arranged cybersecurity training, according to a survey commissioned by NordLocker. This is a worrying statistic because the same study reveals that 77% of professionals handle confidential data at work. The...

SAICA cautions taxpayers on SARS auto assessments

The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) has advised taxpayers issued with an auto assessment from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to carefully examine it before treating it as correct. For the first time following the introduction of...

Inkjet MFPs on the rebound

Revenues from sales of inkjet multifunction printers (MFPs) through European distributors have surged in recent weeks, but not enough to result in year-on-year growth in printer sales for Q2 2022, according to market researcher Context. “Although revenues from...

Location key for workers on the go

Regus has interviewed more than 44 000 business people in over 100 countries and found that while working on the go is very normal, only a handful of limited activities can be carried out effectively anywhere. Specifically, half (49%) of respondents report that cafes...

European development banks invest in African infrastructure fund

Development finance institutions from the UK and the Netherlands – British International Investment (BII) and FMO – have announced a joint commitment of $116-million to African Infrastructure Investment Fund 4 (AIIF4) aimed at taking the fund to its...