End of the road for Server 2003

End of the road for Server 2003

In less than a week, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows Server 2003 – and a huge majority of companies using the operating system haven’t even begun migrating their systems. The risks to organisations will increase after next Wednesday when Microsoft stops issuing...

Opportunity for SA to drive e-government

Departments across the public sector are planning to introduce e-government services with the objective of improving information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure in South Africa. To achieve this, there will be an increased investment in software...

SA drops to 75 in network readiness

South Africa has the opportunity to realise great benefits by increasing its investments in the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, which will ultimately drive the country’s social and economic transformation. According to the latest World...

Wild Neutron spyware is back with a twist

In 2013, a hacker group known to Kaspersky Lab as “Wild Neutron” – which is also known as “Jripbot” and “Morpho” – attacked several high-profile companies including Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft. After the incident was widely publicised, the...

Tax season brings the scammers out

It’s tax season – and that means the cybercriminals are hard at work to scam South African taxpayers. Among the many scams doing the rounds are e-mail pretending to come from South African Revenue Services (SARS), that lead you to infected Web sites or that try and...

Beware bogus DTT installer training courses

Minister of Communications Faith Muthambi has issued a warning about bogus training centres which purport to offer short courses on digital terrestrial television (DTT) set-top box installation. She says that, in last few weeks, the Department of Communications has...