Financial sector is prime phishing target

In the second quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies prevented over 107-million attempts to visit phishing pages, of which 35,7% were related to financial services and targeting customers through fake banking or payment pages. The IT sector...
App security top of mind for businesses

App security top of mind for businesses

Businesses across the world still struggle to understand, optimise, and protect their rapidly expanding application environments, according to new F5 sponsored research from the Ponemon Institute. A survey of 3 135 IT and security practitioners from businesses across...

Apple, Huawei flex muscles in declining tablet market

The overall tablet market for Western Europe declined 10,1% YoY, shipping 6,3-million units in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), according to the latest figures from IDC. Slates exhibited a degree of resilience in the commercial space, following strength in certain...

NGOs call for tougher Climate Change Bill

In its formal response to the Department of Environmental Affairs’ proposed Climate Change Bill, the Life After Coal/Impilo Ngaphandle Kwamalahle Campaign has called for a far more robust and proactive Bill. Life After Coal is a joint campaign of non-profit...

Flexible AMOLED panels on the rise

Amid growing demand for active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panels for smartphones, shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to account for more than 50% of total AMOLED panel shipments by 2020, says HIS Markit. The company says shipments of...

European HCP market continues to slide

The Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market decreased by 5,8% in unit terms in 2Q18 compared with the same period a year ago, according to IDC, meaning the first half of 2018 has declined by 3,6%. This decline amounted to over 273 000 units for the...