SA’s economic transactions still on recovery track

Higher activity levels in South Africa’s economic transactions continue to reflect signs of a recovery, with the country’s growth rate on track to reach record levels in Q3 2020 and achieve strong upturn in the following quarter, according to...

SMMEs need support to restart the economy

South Africa’s SMME sector has a significant role to play in jump-starting the country’s economic growth and minimising the recessionary effects of Covid-19, but it will need support from the financial sector, big business and government to exit the worst...

South Africans losing patience with poor customer service

A quarter of South African customers would ditch companies after just one poor experience, while 63% of them would switch to competing brands after just two-to-five bad examples of customer service. This is according to new research by analytics firm SAS which says...

Climate change poses threat to Africa

Weather across sub-Saharan Africa has become more extreme and unpredictable in the twenty-first century, a trend that climate scientists project will become more pronounced in future decades. This is the key finding confirmed by a report by Greenpeace Africa and the...

Brazilian banking malware goes global on smartphones

While monitoring a Windows campaign from Guildma banking malware, Kaspersky researchers found URLs distributing not only a malicious .ZIP file for Windows, but also a malicious file that appeared to be a downloader to install Ghimob – a new banking Trojan. Upon...

Covid-themed threats, Powershell malware surge

During the second quarter of 2020, an average of 419 new threats per minute were recorded, while overall new malware samples grew by 11,5%. According to the latest McAfee Threats Report, a significant proliferation in malicious Donoff Microsoft Office documents...