Covid-19 drives consumers to digital banking

Covid-19 drives consumers to digital banking

Kathy Gibson reports – As the Covid-19 pandemic hit South African shores, there was an almost immediate drop in consumers’ earning and a rise in retrenchments. That has only increased since April, says Mutsa Chironga, divisional executive for consumer...

Phishing is more targeted and diversified under Covid-19

Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted, with a number of new tricks ranging from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as delivery notifications. As a result of such tendencies, security solutions have detected 2 023 501 phishing attacks in South...

When looking for a VPN, Chinese citizens search for Google

China has a long history of Internet censorship, and has its own tools to replace global services like Google and Facebook. The Chinese government also shields its citizens from the external world with the so-called Great Firewall, which helps control what citizens...

Next-generation IBM Power CPU launched

IBM has launched the next generation of its IBM Power central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM Power10. Designed to meet the needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM Power10 processor uses a design focused on energy efficiency and performance in a 7nm form...

Retailers pick Google Cloud over AWS, Azure

Google Cloud ranks as the number one cloud service provider to the retail sector, outpacing overall market leader AWS and second-placed Microsoft Azure. This is according to the latest research from Canalys’ Cloud Channels Analysis service, which assessed the...

SA top of the African charts for quality of digital life

South Africa ranks 59th in the world for its quality of digital life, but it came in top for Africa. This is according to Surfshark’s DQL Index 2020, which founds that South Africa surpasses Kenya, Nigeria, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco in terms of its digital...