Three steps to improve virtual meetings

With the rapid adoption of enterprise-grade digital meeting and workstream collaboration solutions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Gartner has identified three steps for IT leaders to improve current operations. Business leaders looking to support a newly...

Global initiative boosts messaging on Covid-19 protection

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are set to work with telecommunication companies to text people directly on their mobile phones with vital...

Study identifies largest IaaS and PaaS workloads on public cloud

A new study from IDC offers the first look at enterprise workloads leveraging Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities on the public cloud. The study found that IaaS and PaaS spending in 2018 was dominated by three workloads:...

Lockdown takes its toll on road freight

Road freight operators are predicting an 80% drop in their income for the lockdown period which started on 26 March and is scheduled to end on 30 April. This is according to the results of a weekly survey conducted by the Road Freight Association (RFA) among its...
Sextortion bribes used to fund criminal activity

Sextortion bribes used to fund criminal activity

Sophos has traced the money extracted from sextortion victims, exposing how they were used to fund an underbelly of cybercriminal activity. A SophosLabs article, “Following the Money in a Massive ‘Sextortion’ Spam Scheme”, details how researchers traced the origin of...
Structural reforms on the cards as economy reopens

Structural reforms on the cards as economy reopens

The economic recovery strategy announced last night by President Cyril Ramaphosa aims to stimulate demand and supply through interventions including a substantial infrastructure build programme, the speedy implementation of economic reforms, the transformation of our...