Industrial computers hit by malicious cyber activity

In 2018, Kaspersky Lab detected and prevented activity by malicous objects on almost half of Industrial Control System (ICS) computers protected by the company’s products and defined as part of an organisation’s industrial infrastructure. The most affected...
Standard Bank moves to cloud with AWS

Standard Bank moves to cloud with AWS

Standard Bank Group has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of migrating its production workloads, including its customer facing platforms and strategic core banking applications to the cloud. Standard Bank Group will...

Bank Zero gears up for commercial launch

Bank Zero has officially implemented its EFT payments capabilities and started full end-to-end beta testing ahead of the bank’s launch in the second half of 2019. Bank Zero is now processing payments and debit orders efficiently and securely, as well as...

Global retailers look to realtime in-store pricing

By 2025, it is predicted that the top 10 global retailers by revenue will leverage contextualized realtime pricing through mobile applications to manage and adjust in-store prices for customers. “Digital sales continue to grow, but it’s no longer a...

Asus issues ShadowHammer fix, diagnostics

Asus has moved quickly to protect its users from the ShadowHammer advanced persistent threat (APT), having released a fix as well as a diagnostic tool that will let users check if they have been affected. It has been reported that the supply chain attack, Operation...

Clickatell delivers WhatsApp channel to MTN

MTN South Africa has partnered with global customer engagement company Clickatell to launch MTN Chat, enabling its customers to engage with the telco over WhatsApp. MTN Chat will enable customers to initiate purchase of airtime and data bundles within their WhatsApp...