Jan 18, 2019
A new security breach – Collection #1 – has seen close to 1-billion passwords compromised. Sergey Lozhkin, security expert at Kaspersky Lab, comments: “This massive collection of data harvested through data-breaches had been built up over a long period of...
Jan 18, 2019
Staff shortages have escalated in the last three months to become the top emerging risk organisations face globally, according to Gartner’s latest Emerging Risks Survey. The survey of 137 senior executives in 4Q18 showed that concerns about “talent...
Jan 18, 2019
With a unanimous decision, members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) voted on 17 January to keep interest rates unchanged, in line with analyst expectations. This follows an interest rate hike of 25 basis points (bps) in...
Jan 18, 2019
IBM and Vodafone Business are creating a new venture designed to help companies across Europe and beyond deliver innovation faster and succeed in a digital world. The new strategic commercial agreement will provide clients with the open, flexible technologies they...
Jan 18, 2019
Most Americans polled in a Pew Research study didn’t realise that Facebook keeps track of their interests and categorises them for advertising. The Pew Research Centre asked a representative sample of US social media user to reflect on the data collected about...
Jan 18, 2019
A massive 87% of senior business leaders say digitalisation is a company priority, while 79% of corporate strategists say it is reinventing their business — creating new revenue streams in new ways. But so far, digital change has been slow and disappointing....