WildPressure Trojan targets the Middle East

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) experts have uncovered a targeted campaign to distribute Milum – a malicious Trojan that gains remote control of devices in various organisations, including those representing the industrial sector....

Beware: cybercriminals will exploit lockdown

As the country prepares to go into a three-week lockdown from midnight tomorrow (26 March) to combat the national Covid-19 outbreak, businesses and employees across South Africa are putting the necessary measures in place to operate remotely. Unfortunately, this may...

Ricoh 3D offers help to build vital ventilators

Ricoh 3D has pledged to support the battle against Covid-19 by offering to help produce vital ventilators in the UK. “New ventilators are urgently required as the coronavirus crisis intensifies,” says Mark Dickin, additive manufacturing & moulding...

Coronavirus causes long-term pain for IT services

The impact of Covid-19 on the IT services sector will be deep, immediate, and long-lasting, say analysts GlobalData, and while there is a potential upside in most sectors, there is little optimism for IT services. The company has published a fully revised report,...

SA gears up to combat Covid-19

On Monday evening, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the escalation of measures the government will adopt in its battle to contain – and defeat – the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. His address to the nation outlining the new measures to be taken was...

Global platform protects telecoms networks

ITU Secretary-General, Houlin Zhao, has hailed the launch of a global platform to help protect telecommunication networks during the Covid-19 crisis, saying the new platform will assist governments and the private sector in ensuring that networks are kept resilient...