May 25, 2018
SA Express confirms that the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) has suspended the airline’s Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) as well as the certification for an Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO). The SACAA finding relates, among others,...
May 24, 2018
South Africans consider a fair salary to range from R6 380 to R10 121 per month, with an average across all groups of R6 953. This is the finding from the Human Science Research Council’s (HSRC’s) recently-published social attitudes study in which the...
May 24, 2018
Something all politically-conscious South Africans often forget is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, writes Martin van Staden, a legal researcher at the Free Market Foundation (FMF). Whether the intention is to achieve easier access to housing,...
May 24, 2018
In addition to malware, a newer and bigger threat to the safety, security and value of cryptocurrencies has emerged: in-browser cryptojacking that hackers use to target the newer less-well known currencies such as Monero, Coinhive and Zcash. These low-profile...
May 24, 2018
Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) reported on 23 May that consumer price inflation increased from 3,8% year-on-year (y-o-y) in March to 4,5% y-o-y in April. The latest reading ended a 12-month decline in headline inflation, following the introduction of a 1 percentage...
May 24, 2018
In the first quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies prevented more than 3,7-million attempts to visit fraudulent social network pages of which 60% were fake Facebook pages. The results, according to the Kaspersky Lab report, “Spam and...
