Mabuza takes on interim Eskom position

Jabulane Mabuza has been appointed as the interim executive chairman and acting group chief executive of Eskom, effective 1 August 2019. The announcement was made by the Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan at the Eskom Annual General Meeting yesterday (29...

Huawei shows robust growth for H1 2019

Huawei has announced CNY401,3-billion revenue for the first half of 2019, a 23.2% increase over the same period last year. The company’s net profit margin for H1 2019 was 8.7%. According to Huawei’s chairman, Liang Hua, operations are smooth and the...

State of the job market in Q1

The Quarterly employment survey (QES) for the first quarter of 2019 from Statistics South Africa shows an increase of 22 000 jobs (+0,2%) from 10 152 000 to 10 174 000 in the formal non-agricultural business sector. This was largely due to increases in the following...

Newly-discovered ransomware tries to spread via SMS

ESET researchers discovered a new ransomware family, Android/Filecoder.C. Using victims’ contact lists, it attempts to spread further via SMSes with malicious links. The new ransomware was seen distributed via porn-related topics on Reddit. The malicious profile...

New WhatsApp scam offers free Internet

The fraudulent campaign is hosted by a domain that is home to yet more scams impersonating other well-known brands Recently, ESET researchers in Latin America received a message on WhatsApp stating that the app was giving away 1000Gb of Internet data to celebrate its...
Apollo 11 experiment still yields benefits today

Apollo 11 experiment still yields benefits today

One of the experiments the Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins left behind on the Moon continues to return fresh data to this day: arrays of prisms that reflect light back toward its source, providing plentiful insights. Along with the Apollo 11...