Oct 9, 2018
Security specialist Gemalto has released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, which reveals that 945 data breaches led to 4,5-billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018. Compared to...
Oct 9, 2018
Intel has announced what it says is the world’s best gaming processor – the 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K – adding that preorders for the new processor are now available. The announcement was made as part of a series of new desktop processor...
Oct 9, 2018
Last week, (3 October), Parker Solar Probe performed the first significant celestial manoeuvre of its seven-year mission. As the orbits of the spacecraft and Venus converged toward the same point, Parker Solar Probe slipped in front of the planet, allowing...
Oct 9, 2018
In the 34 years of the annual SA Programming Olympiad only two learners have ever earned the gold medal twice. Taariq Mowzer, a grade 11 pupil at Fairbairn College in Cape Town, just became the third. Mowzer (17) competed against nine other finalists from three...
Oct 9, 2018
The data of close to half a million Google+ users could be exposed; in response, Google will be shutting the service. Reports indicate that a security bug has allowed third-party developers to access Google+ user profile data since 2015 until Google discovered and...
Oct 9, 2018
As the rate of identity theft accelerates, questions are being asked about how information becomes available to companies and people pushing goods and services that an individual has no knowledge of requesting. According to the PWC report on the Protection of...
