Hacker-for-hire group DeathStalker strikes again

DeathStalker is an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that is believed to offer hacking-for-hire services to steal sensitive business information from companies in the financial and legal sector. First reported by Kaspersky researchers in August this year, the...

Key takeaways from Black Friday 2020

While pre-Covid-19 e-commerce played on the periphery of retail in South Africa, BankServ figures show online sales surging 62% year-on-year (YoY) on Black Friday as virus-wary South Africans shunned in-store shopping. On the other hand, brick-and-mortar sales figures...

Online fraud rose over Black Friday weekend

There has been a 6,59% rise in suspected online retail fraud coming from South Africa during the start of the 2020 holiday shopping season compared to the same period in 2019. These findings are based on the online retail transactions TransUnion analysed for its...

Top marketing predictions for 2020 and beyond

Gartner’s top marketing predictions for 2021 and beyond explore how post-pandemic renewal strategies put marketing on the hook for redefining and reestablishing customer relationships in line with digital’s “new normal”. “The need for...

Calling young innovators …

Applications have opened for the Global Young Innovators Programme, a free programme offered to 60 of the best and brightest young innovators and entrepreneurs in South Africa and the UK to come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. Aimed at...
Blockchain could boost economy as it raises trust

Blockchain could boost economy as it raises trust

Blockchain technology has the potential to boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by $1,76-trillion over the next decade. That is the key finding of a new PwC report “Time for trust: The trillion-dollar reason to rethink blockchain”, which assesses how...