60% rise in password stealing attacks

The use of malware designed to harvest consumers’ digital data – known as password stealers – has seen a significant rise in 2019. According to Kaspersky’s data, the number of users, targeted by the stealers, peaked from less than 600 000 in...

MTN builds for a 4IR future

MTN is developing a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) and is re-purposing thousands of sites across the country to harness narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) as the rollout of turnkey solutions for enterprise customers gathers pace. Giovanni Chiarelli,...

African Development Bank approves $300m TDB facility

The African Development Bank has approved a $300-million support facility for the Eastern and Southern African Trade & Development Bank (TDB). The COMESA regional trade and project finance package consists of a composite funded trade finance and project finance...
This is what a marsquake looks like …

This is what a marsquake looks like …

Earth isn’t the only place that experiences quakes: Both the Moon and Mars have them as well. NASA sent the first seismometer to the Moon 50 years ago, during the Apollo 11 mission; the agency’s InSight lander brought the first seismometer to Mars in late...

SA gets its own RPA community

With major South African enterprises fast embracing robotic process automation (RPA) and mid-size and even small businesses set to follow suit, Blue Prism has launched a South African RPA community. Speaking at the first Blue Prism roadshow in South Africa this week,...
Emotion recognition could enhance e-learning experience

Emotion recognition could enhance e-learning experience

There are a number of challenges in computer science education and more needs to be done to cater for the current and upcoming demand for computer science within higher education. Teaching and learning methods exist that directly attempt to address these issues found...