Dec 7, 2016
Kaspersky Lab’s cloud malware database now carries 1-billion malicious objects, including viruses, Trojans, backdoors, ransomware, and advertisement applications and their components. A fifth of these objects were discovered and identified as malicious by Astraea...
Dec 7, 2016
The Western European software market increased 4,6% year over year in constant currencies during the first half of 2016, according to the latest release of IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker. Total software revenues in Western Europe reached $48-billion...
Dec 6, 2016
2017 is set to be another hard year for the South African IT industry – there will be growth, but it will take hard work and plenty of innovation to achieve it. Mark Walker, associate vice-president: sub-Saharan Africa, IDC Middle East, Africa and Turkey, points to...
Dec 6, 2016
Demand for senior leaders in South African companies has more than doubled over the past three months, as businesses urgently play catch-up to fill their top posts. Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, CEO of Jack Hammer, rated says there has been a wave of briefings from across all...
Dec 6, 2016
While the smartwatch market took a tumble this quarter, the overall wearables market grew 3,1% year over year in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16). Total wearables shipments reached 23-million in the quarter. According to data from the International Data Corporation,...
Dec 6, 2016
Last week the new broke that more than 1,3-million Google accounts have been compromised by the Gooligan malware – and that number is growing at a rate of about 13 000 new infections every day. Sophos’ senior security advisor John Shier offers the...
