Hetzner breach: users urged to update passwords

Web hosting and managed server company Hetzner has experienced a security breach, and urges customers to update their passwords. An “important security notice” on the organisation’s web site, reveals: “Our security has been compromised: please...

Cloud 2.0 era heralds ‘pragmatic cloud’

South Africa’s cloud adoption rate is on the increase as the country moves rapidly a from cloud-first to a cloud-only methodology. The trend, which is rampant globally, is picking up speed as IDC predicts that 60%t of enterprise IT workloads will be off premise....

Teraco will connect clients to MS cloud

Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s largest neutral data centre, will be a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Connectivity partner, providing clients high-performance private network connections to Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft Cloud Services. Teraco will be one...

Urbanisation drives SA safety challenges

A massive 71,3% of South Africa’s population will live in urban areas by 2030, and will continue to rise to nearly 80% by 2050. South Africa’s urban population is also growing younger, with two-thirds of South African youth (18-35 year-olds) living in...

Russian-speaking Silence hits financial firms

A new group called Silence has launched a series of cyber-attacks has targeted 10 financial organisations in multiple regions including Russia, Armenia, and Malaysia. While stealing funds from its victims, Silence implements specific techniques similar to the infamous...

SA firms face global cyber-threats

The IT security concerns, challenges and investment by South African enterprises is closely aligned with those of their international counterparts. “Where as recently as two years ago, South Africa lagged the rest of the developed world in terms of IT security...