Investments, upstarts push 3D printer growth

Global 3D printer shipments were mixed in the first quarter with most unit growth coming from upstarts. While overall shipments were marginally down in Q1’9, mostly again due to the weakness in the high-volume Personal segment and a seasonal slowdown in...

Top start-ups compete for R10m funding

Andza, a competition which aims to develop South Africa’s top entrepreneurs and fast-track them to success, will be open for entries until 19 July 2019. Andza offers South Africa’s top start-ups the chance to be considered for R10 million in investment...

New versions of FinSpy revealed

Kaspersky experts have uncovered new versions of the advanced malicious surveillance tool FinSpy. The new implants work on both iOS and Android devices, can monitor activity on almost all popular messaging services, including encrypted ones, and hide their traces...

Humans the biggest cause of breaches in the cloud

Incidents in public cloud infrastructure are more likely to happen because of a customer’s employees rather than actions carried out by cloud providers. According to a new Kaspersky report, Understanding security of the cloud: from adoption benefits to threats...

Agent Smith hits mobile devices

Check Point Researchers recently discovered a new variant of mobile malware that has quietly infected around 25 -million devices, while the user remains completely unaware. Disguised as a Google related application, the core part of the malware exploits various known...

Global IT spending on a slow growth path

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,74-trillion in 2019, an increase of 0.6% from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. This is slightly down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 1,1% growth. “Despite uncertainty fuelled by...