Nightmare before Christmas: Are your financial details compromised?

Nightmare before Christmas: Are your financial details compromised?

The time of unrestrained shopping has already begun, thanks to Black Friday in November, followed by Christmas and New Year gift giving, and then the January sales. But it is worth remembering that cybercriminals targeting consumers’ banking credentials or online...

The threat landscape in 2019

If 2017 was the year of ransomware then 2018 has been the year of the hack. The increasingly sophisticated threats coupled with the implementation of data protection regulations made this 2018 a challenging year in cybersecurity. The introduction of the EU’s GDPR...

2019 tipped to be the year of digitalisation

The coming year is set to be a watershed year for SMEs as the last of the late adopters make the switch to digital ICTs. From outdated analogue telecoms technologies, 2019 will see the last significant tranche of late adopters finally transition to digital...

Naspers leads $1bn investment round in India’s Swiggy

Naspers has executed definitive agreements to lead a $-1billion Series H round in Swiggy, India’s largest food delivery platform with a $660-mllion investment. The round includes participation from several existing investors including DST Global, Meituan Dianping and...

16,5m patients are remotely monitored

Berg Insight has released new findings on the mHealth market. The number of remotely monitored patients grew by 41% to 16,5-million in 2017 as the market acceptance continues to grow in several key verticals. This number includes all patients enrolled in mHealth care...

Another Windows zero-day vulnerability discovered

Kaspersky Lab researchers have automatically detected a new exploited vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows OS kernel, the third consecutive zero-day exploit to be discovered in three months. The latest exploited vulnerability (CVE-2018-8611) was found in malware...