Oct 29, 2019
A new study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African homeland and thrived there for 70 000 years. The breakthrough findings are published in the journal Nature, with the authors...
Oct 29, 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth from next-generation 5G services will be reliant on the availability of a specific strand of radio frequencies, known as ‘millimetre wave’ frequencies, which are set to be identified for use by mobile operators at...
Oct 29, 2019
South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) says local ICT service providers that don’t support the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) are potentially threatening the country’s participation in the Fourth...
Oct 29, 2019
Humans still present the biggest cybersecurity risk, according to Duo Security founder Dug Song, formerly a member of the elite hacker group w00w00. Song co-founded Duo Security in 2010 and the company was bought by Cisco for $2,35-billion in 2018. He spoke to...
Oct 29, 2019
The city of Johanneburg says its systems are slowing coming back up following last week’s ransomware attacks – and it has no intention of paying the 4-bitcoin ransom demanded. Starting on Thursday 24 October, city employees attempting to log on to their...
Oct 29, 2019
South Africa’s mobile content and applications industry is steadily winning the war against fraudsters attempting to target local cellular users with unauthorised micro-billing. This was communicated to an assembled gathering of the world’s leading players...
