Stolen identities cause another headache for SA

Amid Covid-19, millions of South Africans now have another crisis to worry about – their personal information has been lost to a fraudster who has gained access to 24-million people’s information. The information in question is the exact detail required to...

WHO, UNICEF urge safe school reopening in Africa

The unprecedented and prolonged school closures aimed at keeping students safe from Covid-19 are harming them in other ways, World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF says, urging governments in Africa to promote the safe reopening of schools while taking measures to...

AYO to buy into Kathea Communications, Kathea Energy

AYO Technology Solutions has entered into binding agreements to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of Kathea Communication Solutions, and 60% of the issues share capital of Kathea Energy Equity. Kathea Communication is a value-added distributor of voice, audio...

Supply chain leaders urged to develop culture of quality

A single disruption in an organisation causes an average culture of quality to drop 9%, according to a survey by Gartner. And organisations experience on average three disruptions per year. “Covid-19, digital transformation, sudden facility shutdowns or an...

Telco clouds would drive competition

IDC believes that the telco cloud will develop in parallel with cloud hyperscalers, operations support systems or business support systems vendors, application providers, system integrators, open source groups, and industry bodies. These are among the findings from...

Zero-day exploits hit Windows OS, Explorer

In May 2020, Kaspersky’s automated detection technologies prevented a targeted attack on a South Korean company. Closer analysis revealed that this attack used a previously unknown full chain that consisted of two zero-day exploits: a remote code execution...