Hidden parasite discovered in Microsoft Exchange add-on

Kaspersky has uncovered a previously unknown IIS module (a piece of software aimed at providing additional features to Microsoft web servers) they have since dubbed Owowa that steals credentials entered by a user when logging into Outlook Web Access (OWA); it also...

Act now to avert climate catastrophe, warns Nobel laureate

The poorest countries will bear the worst effects of climate change and the highest costs in terms of economic production and higher mortality, according to Nobel laureate Esther Duflo. The 2019 Economics Nobel Laureate and professor of economics at the Massachusetts...
What do South Africans think, feel and worry about most?

What do South Africans think, feel and worry about most?

On Thursday, 5 March 2020, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that a suspected case of Covid-19 had tested positive. This was South Africa’s first reported case – a 38-year-old male who travelled to Italy with his wife and were part...

Public sector slow to address cybersecurity issues

There’s nothing quite like a global pandemic with legally enforceable lockdowns to expose the public sector’s dependence on ageing digital infrastructure. While the SolarWinds “sunburst” attack made headlines in 2020 for its impact on private...

Digital transformation set to take off across the region

Digital transformation investments in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) are set to double across the 2020 to 2025 period, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). The researcher says that digital transformation spending in...