Opportunities abound in IT – UCT

Sep 18, 2015

Young professionals are blazing a trail in the field of IT in South Africa, with more professional jobs offered in this sector than in any other – and career prospects are very encouraging, particularly for students who are considering what to study at university.

Reduced TTD key to fighting cybercrime

Sep 18, 2015

The Cisco 2015 Midyear Security Report, which analyses threat intelligence and cybersecurity trends, reveals the critical need for organisations to reduce time to detection (TTD) in order to remediate against sophisticated attacks by highly motivated threat actors....

Ransomware rises dramatically in Q2

Sep 18, 2015

In the second quarter of 2015 there was an average of 230 000 new malware samples created daily, totalling 21-million from April to June – an increase of 43% in comparison to the second quarter of 2014. This is according to PandaLabs latest quarterly report,...

Uberforgood does good

Sep 18, 2015

More than a thousand pairs of shoes,  piles of clothing, 10 baby seats, a couch, a few sets of golf clubs, computers, laptops and a box of cellphones – these are just some of the goods collected through the uberforgood spring clean campaign that exploded on...

Minister issues challenge to USAASA

Sep 18, 2015

The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services Dr Siyabonga Cwele has challenged the new board of directors of the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) to come up with strategies to create space for black industrialists in the ICT...

Deutsche Telecom signs up Huawei for public cloud

Sep 18, 2015

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – Deutsche Telecom has signed up Huawei as its public cloud computing partner in Europe. Jorn Kellerman, senior vice-president and T-Systems, explains that the company was looking for a simple, secure and...