Jozi tops in Africa for women entrepreneurs

Jozi tops in Africa for women entrepreneurs

Even though it dropped slightly in rankings in Dell Technologies’ Women Entrepreneur Cities Index, Johannesburg is still among the top 50 cities that support women entrepreneurs. The city’s position at 36 is more indicative of the increasing competition to...

The imminent reality of cyberattacks

Participants in Aon’s 2019 Global Risk Management Survey ranked cyberattacks and data breaches as No.6 in the top 10 risks facing organisations today. The risk entered the Top 10 list for the first time (at No.9) in 2015 and is projected to go from No.6 to No.3...

Global device shipments to decline in 2019

Worldwide shipments of devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — will total 2,2-billion units in 2019, a decline of 3,3% year over year, according to Gartner. The mobile phone market is set to record the worst performance of these device types, declining...

Researchers hail demise of online security algorithm

An international team of mathematicians has hailed the end of a variant of a code that is widely used to protect online transactions. These algorithms, which stretch to hundreds of digits, are created to help protect banking details, but these can be broken if...

Turla hacking group revamps toolset

Kaspersky researchers have discovered that the Russian-speaking threat actor Turla has revamped its toolset, wrapping its famous JavaScript KopiLuwak malware in a new dropper called Topinambour, creating two similar versions in other languages, and distributing its...

It’s World Emoji Day today!

Today (17 July) is World Emoji Day, celebrating the estimated 5 billion emojis that are sent daily on Facebook Messenger by 4-billion Internet users online. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013, the word emoji literally means “picture” (e) +...