Sep 27, 2013
The first scoop of soil analysed by the analytical suite in the belly of NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain several percent water by weight. The results were published today in Science as one article in a...
Sep 27, 2013
Cybercrime costs the US economy at least $100-billion a year, equating to a loss of 508 000 US jobs, according to a new study, Estimating the Cost of Cybercrime and Cyber Espionage. After years of guesswork and innumerable attempts to quantify the costly effects of...
Sep 27, 2013
The perceived level of maturity attached to organisations’ privacy activities has decreased since 2011, as many organisations deem their existing privacy activities to be inadequate, according to a survey by Gartner. The survey found that 43% of organisations...
Sep 27, 2013
The Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) argues in a new report that information security needs to become a cross-organisational function, with security functions embedded into business processes, and security teams working closely with business units on...
Sep 27, 2013
Kaspersky Lab’s security research team has published a new research paper on the discovery of “Icefog”, a small yet energetic APT group that focuses on targets in South Korea and Japan, hitting the supply chain for western companies. The operation started in 2011 and...
Sep 27, 2013
Acer has announced AxizWorkgroup has been appointed as the sole distributor for Acer Altos servers. “Acer is pleased to be partnering with one of sub-Saharan Africa’s premier hardware distributors which will allow Acer Altos server products to form part of a flagship...
