4IR still waiting in the wings

The 10th edition of Wits’ Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) skills survey sketches a mixed future for the ICT landscape in South Africa should current trends persist. “Although many stakeholder groups are making concerted efforts to improve the...

Economic transactional activity takes knock in September

As the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, prepares to deliver his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) later this month, the latest data shows the South African economy requires urgent intervention as economic transactions reached depressed levels in September....

SA among Top 20 targets in phishing scam

Fortinet researchers studying phishing domains have found that South Africa was among the top 20 countries targeted in a large influx of recent phishing attacks. In June and July, FortiGuard Labs observed a large influx of phishing domains being registered in batches...

Fintech Jumo scoops gold at IFC awards

Jumo, a technology company building next-generation financial services to empower emerging market entrepreneurs, has received gold in the Responsible Digital Innovator of the Year category at the Global SME Finance Forum Awards held this week in Amsterdam. Organised...

A case of too little, too late?

Around 56% of Incident Response (IR) requests processed by Kaspersky security experts in 2018 happened after the affected organisation experienced an attack that had visible consequences such as unauthorised money transfers, workstations encrypted by ransomware and...
Signs of an ancient oasis found on Mars

Signs of an ancient oasis found on Mars

If you could travel back in time 3,5-billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA’s Curiosity rover. Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale Crater, the 150km wide ancient basin that Curiosity is exploring....