PC prices expected to rise

Apr 29, 2015

Device vendors will have to raise the prices of PCs to offset the effects of currency devaluation, says Gartner, adding that prices of PCs in the Eurozone and Japan, in particular, will increase by up to 10% during 2015.”We are currently seeing the sharp...

Contactless payments boom in SA

Apr 29, 2015

Contactless payments continue to gain traction in South Africa, with Standard Bank saying it has issued more than 11 222 devices to merchants and that some 7 370 have adopted its “tap and go” solution. The bank adds that over R16-billion in payment transactions has been processed by merchants in South Africa since Standard Bank first introduced the contactless payment technology to its customers in 2012.

APTs set to take off in 2015

APTs set to take off in 2015

Apr 28, 2015

2015 is gearing up to be the year that advanced persistent threats (APTs) become mainstream – and they have the potential to dangerously affect millions of people. Sergey Lozhkin, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team, points out that we live in a world for everyone spies on other people. Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs’ conference in Lisbon.

Mobile apps are the new face of business

Apr 28, 2015

Almost 55% of millennials say a poor mobile app experience would make them less likely to use a company’s products or services.According to a new global Oracle report, Millennials and Mobility: how Businesses can tap into the App Generation, 39% of millennials would...

Unpacking the growing malware threats

Apr 28, 2015

Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs’ conference in Lisbon – The threat of malware attacks on corporates and states is growing in 2015. While the first advanced persistent threats (APTs), Stuxnet, was detected in 2010, four new APTs have already been already...

DDoS attacks are set to proliferate

Apr 28, 2015

Kathy Gibson reports from Kaspersky Labs’ conference in Lisbon – Denial of service (DoS) attacks have been with us for many years, but the rate at which they are launched and their effectiveness is only growing.Amin Hasbini, senior security research at Kaspersky...