May 8, 2018
Altron subsidiary Bytes UK has signed a R2,5-billion contract with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to roll out Windows 10 to all NHS computers. The five-year contract, worth £150-million (R2,5-billion), or £30-million (R510 million) per year, saw Bytes UK...
May 8, 2018
Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Tech Trends launch – Digital disruption is not going away for at least the next 15 years – and organisations need to gear up to ensure they take advantage of new technologies. “Even if you are not engaging with it,...
May 8, 2018
Current market activity indicates that cryptocurrencies are set for “another considerable surge in price gains” in the near future – but investors are advised to exercise caution. This forecast from Nigel Green, founder and CEO of the deVere Group,...
May 8, 2018
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes. This is the first time the Doppelgänging technique has been seen in ransomware in...
May 8, 2018
Researchers have devised a test that gauges a person’s susceptibility to falling for online scams and other types of Internet crime. The freely available questionnaire – called “Susceptibility to Persuasion – II” (StP-II) and developed by...
May 8, 2018
Cash in transit (CIT) heists are on the increase and are fast becoming one of the biggest dangers to the South African public. Figures from the South African Banking Risk Information Council (SABRIC) show that there were 378 CIT robberies in 2017. That is, on average,...
