Free textbooks, student essays harbour malware

Kaspersky experts have uncovered 53 531 malicious or potentially unwanted files disguised as ready-to-use essays and textbooks for schools and universities. From August 2018 to July 2019 they were used in 356 662 attacks on 104 819 users – a 21% decrease,...

Nedbank moves to the cloud with Microsoft

Nedbank has partnered with Microsoft to migrate components of its IT infrastructure to the cloud, making it the first bank in the country to run operations of this scale in the cloud. The partnership forms part of Nedbank’s robust 2020 digital transformation...

No let-up in encrypted or IoT threats

There has been an alarming 76% and 55% spike in encrypted and IoT attacks respectively, according to the mid-year 2019 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report. The company also reported a 15% increase in global ransomware attacks with ransomware-as-as service cited as the...

Vehicle sales slump again in August

August was by no means a pretty picture for South African new vehicle sales as the industry slumped back to levels experienced towards the end of the first half. April brought some hope, with sales marginally (0,7%) higher, but May returned a 5,7% blow while June and...

NU signs up Hitachi Vantara

Networks Unlimited Africa has announced a partnership agreement with Hitachi Vantara, a global data storage systems, software and services provider, that focuses its efforts on information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and the Internet of Things (IoT)....

Slow consumer sales pull PCs down

The start of the third quarter 2019 saw PC sales continue to follow the pattern that has characterised the past few quarters, with healthy demand from commercial buyers offsetting weaker consumer sales. This is according to the latest data published by IT market...