Businesses are poorly prepared for return to work

Failure to properly prepare their workplace and workforce for a return to work after lockdown could have disastrous consequences for companies as organisational outbreaks threaten business continuity in an already fragile economy. This is the warning sounded by Dr...

Covid-19 and the role of critical networks

International Data Corporation (IDC) Canada has released a report on communications and healthcare titled, “Critical Networks Provide Critical Care: Role of Communication Networks to Treat and Prevent Covid-19”. The study examines the growing appreciation...

SA users not clued up on passwords

The latest Kaspersky report, ‘Defending digital privacy: Taking personal protection to the next level’, has found that 87% of South African users are thinking up their own passwords, while 72% say they are unaware about how to check if any of their...

EOH results show resilience

Despite the challenges of Covid-19, the EOH Group has turned in resilient financial performance over the last quarter. For the quarter ended 30 April 2020, revenue experienced some downward pressure as a result of the lockdown but the group delivered a positive EBITDA...

African Development Bank prioritises food security

The African Development Bank has unveiled a strategic roadmap of projects and programmes to assist African countries in tackling the nutrition and food security aspects of the Covid-19 crisis through a raft of immediate and longer-term measures. The Feed Africa...

Sophisticated APT group sharpens its toolkit

Kaspersky researchers have deconstructed an updated, more sophisticated toolset being deployed by APT group Cycldek, which has been targeting governments in Southeast Asia since at least 2013. Among the findings was a previously unknown malware – dubbed...