An evolving threat for developed markets

Mobile ransomware actors are focusing their attacks on wealthy countries as developed markets not only have a higher level of income, but also a more advanced and more widely used mobile and e-payment infrastructure. According to Kaspersky Lab’s annual...

IBM, US Air Force collaborate on neurosynaptic system

IBM and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have announced they are collaborating on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system powered by a 64-chip array of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System. The scalable platform IBM is building for AFRL...

FNB scoops another award

For a third year in a row, First National Bank (FNB) leads with the strongest reputation within the South African financial banking industry, as adjudged by the 2017 RepTrak Pulse Survey. FNB ranked well in the dimension drivers of Products/Services, Innovation,...

Whatsapp group admins could be under threat

Messaging platform, Whatsapp has recently come under the spotlight in India – where there are well over 200m users of the application – with the most recent incident seeing the administrator of a WhatsApp group face arrest after a defamatory image of the...

Moving towards a cashless society

Use of hard cash as a percentage of total global payments is steadily declining, but the key driver of its supply and demand is the consumer’s propensity to adopt alternatives such as digital transactions. Peter Alkema, CIO of business banking at FNB says the...
Did Russia reveal secret military satellites?

Did Russia reveal secret military satellites?

Research copmpany IHS Markit has released a report identifying what appears to be a previously unknown Russian military satellite programme.A photograph was released following a low-profile visit by Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu to the ISS Reshtnev...