Connection found between SolarWinds attack and Kazuar backdoor

On 13 December 2020, FireEye, Microsoft and SolarWinds announced the discovery of a large, sophisticated supply chain attack that deployed a new, previously unknown malware “Sunburst” used against SolarWinds’ Orion IT customers. Kaspersky’s...
First-of-a-kind journey for Dragon spacecraft

First-of-a-kind journey for Dragon spacecraft

By capsule, helicopter, boat, plane, and car, space station science experiments are about to make a first of a kind journey back to researchers on Earth. Today (11 January), the SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft carrying out the company’s 21st commercial resupply...

Economic uncertainty to shape cybercrime agenda in Africa

Growing economic turbulence, along with the impact of Covid-19, will contribute to an increase in cybercrime across South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria this year, according to Kaspersky experts. “Even though every country globally has had to deal with the pandemic...

Remote work, health monitoring to drive wearables growth

Worldwide end-user spending on wearable devices will total $81,5-billion in 2021, an 18,1% increase from $69-billion in 2020, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. The rise in remote work and increased interest in health monitoring during the Covid-19...

Used smartphone market set to reach $65bn by 2024

International Data Corporation (IDC) expects worldwide shipments of used smartphones, inclusive of both officially refurbished and used smartphones, to reach a total of 225,4-million units in 2020. This represents an increase of 9,2% over the 206.5 million units...

Last chance for SA expatriates to come clean with SARS

South Africans living or working abroad can no longer avoid the long arm of SARS. Under pressure to meet its revenue quotas, the tax authority has started auditing the country’s non-compliant expatriates in earnest. “We have been warning expatriates that...