Ropemaker adds insecure email links

A common belief is that email is immutable once delivered, like a physical letter. But a new exploit turns that assumption on its head, undermining the security and non-repudiation of email; even for those that use SMIME or PGP for signing. Mimecast has revealed the...

SA goes crazy for mental health …

The first few steps were taken in a campaign to elevate awareness of mental illness today. The “Crazy for Walking” campaign has a group of walkers walking a crazy distance of 1 500km from Pretoria to Cape Town in a period of just over five weeks, planning...

NRF approves R35m nuclear spectrometer funding

The National Research Foundation (NRF) has approved the funding of R35-million for a Nuclear Spectrometer. GAMKA, which stands for GAMma-ray spectrometer for Knowledge in Africa as well as from the Khoisan word for “lion”, will bolster the country’s...

Adding value with data management

Kathy Gibson at Fujitsu World Tour, Bryanston — As the world moves to digitalisation, a new approach to data management is needed. A good example of these changing needs is data backup and recovery, where customers make big investments but don’t always see...

Making the move to SAP hybrid cloud

Kathy Gibson at Fujitsu World Tour, Bryanston — Simplification is the goal that companies want from their cloud strategy — but this is not always that easy to achieve. This means they really shouldn’t be setting out to drive a single cloud strategy,...

Journey to the software-defined data centre

Kathy Gibson at Fujitsu World Tour, Bryanston — The software-defined data centre (SDDC) has been the CIO’s goal for a couple of years now – and now the elements are all in place to make it a reality. When it comes to the SDDC, integrated systems are...