SA improves its Threat Index ranking

While South Africa improved its global ranking in the latest Check Point Software Technologies Threat Index, the number of active global malware families increased by 15% in May 2016. South Africa ended May ranked 61st in the world, according to the Global Threat...

Vodacom to roll out new GDE app

Vodacom and the Gauteng Department of Education have renewed their commitment to a seven year partnership which will see a revamped and feature rich mobile app for Gauteng schools rolled out across the province this month to assist school principals in improving...

Energy equipment vulnerability uncovered

While performing a security assessment for one of its clients in the critical infrastructure sector, the Kaspersky Lab Security Services team discovered an important vulnerability. The CVE-2016-4785 vulnerability could allow an attacker to remotely obtain a limited...

Governments under attack in East Africa

In East Africa, governments are the top target sector for cyber attacks, fielding 33% of the threats. Telecommunications (22%) and financial services (17%) follow in close succession. Contrary to the perception that cyber breaches are a problem unique to the large...
E-commerce makes headway in SA

E-commerce makes headway in SA

E-commerce may be taking the world by storm, but South Africans remain wary of shopping online, with only 3-million making regular use of electronic shopping trollies to meet their daily requirements – but that could be changing. With online purchases expected...

Johannesburg rolls out e-health platform

Altron group company Med-e-Mass has partnered with the City of Johannesburg to improve healthcare delivery by transitioning from paper-based patient health records to an electronic health platform. The digitisation project will create a single body of patient records...