Apr 4, 2022
When Tanish Tyagi published his first research paper a year ago on deep learning to detect dementia, it started a family-driven pursuit. Great-grandparents in his family had suffered from Parkinson’s, a genetic disease that affects more than 10-million people...
Apr 4, 2022
Media reports about the luxurious mansion inhabited by the previous chairman of the National Lotteries Commission–reportedly funded by kickbacks–have provided a lot of information to worry and disgust even corruption-weary South Africans. “But what...
Apr 1, 2022
Sophos has released findings on how attackers are using the Log4Shell vulnerability to deliver backdoors and profiling scripts to unpatched VMware Horizon servers, paving the way for persistent access and future ransomware attacks. A new technical paper, “Horde...
Apr 1, 2022
The war in Ukraine has added concerns to an already tense cybersecurity environment. Additionally, recent international coverage about scammers using QR codes to misdirect funds is fuelling fraud uncertainty. But South African consumers, while wise to remain vigilant,...
Apr 1, 2022
In 2021, Kaspersky researchers blocked 1,2-million individual phishing pages based on 469 phishing kits – which are ready-made fake page templates – that allow cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks effortlessly. Since a phishing site can be blocked...
Apr 1, 2022
More than 15-million decent jobs must be created for Africa by 2025 if governments are serious about making a dent in its unemployment crisis, according to a new charter launched today. The People’s Charter on Jobs in Africa – created by the Jobs Now...