Trend’s factory honeypot traps malicious attackers

Trend Micro has announced the results of a sophisticated six-month operational technology (OT) honeypot operation imitating an industrial factory, aimed at attracting fraud- and financially-motivated exploits. The investigation revealed that unsecured industrial...

$11bn in cryptocurrency lost to hackers

Data calculated by InsideBitcoins shows that over $11-billion worth of cryptocurrencies has been stolen in different hackings of exchanges, wallets and mining platforms. The biggest platform to suffer a significant hacking was Tokyo’s Mt.Gox cryptocurrency...

The case for UK investment into Africa

Africa is on the cusp of unmatched economic transformation, and the UK must engage in a “partnership of change”. This is the word from African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina, in yesterday’s keynote address at a UK Parliamentary...

Submarine cable restoration process gets underway

Gale force Cape Town winds that have kept the ship tasked with fixed two submarine cable breaks confined to port have subsided, and the repair process can now get underway. A simultaneous dual cable break that occurred in the early hours of last Thursday, 16 January...

MTN launches TikTok data bundles

MTN has launched a number of customised data bundles aimed at the rising number of TikTok users in South Africa. The new bundles are available to all prepaid customers on *136*2# from as little as R5 for a 100Mb daily bundle. TikTok is a short-form video sharing app...

Gen Z to set EdTech trends for 2020

As edtech enters the next decade, Generation Z will continue to disrupt the way they learn and how they approach their education. Having grown up with technology as a part of their daily lives, Gen Z is critiquing the limitations of the old education system....