South Africans under increasing attack by fraudsters
A massive 68% of South Africans have been targeted by email, online, phone call or text messaging fraud in the last three months, with 13% saying they had become victims. Among those who said they were targeted, the most common reported schemes were phishing, where...
Call for innovators to show DPI solutions
The Digital Public Infrastructure for People and Planet (DPI4PP) Innovation Challenge 2025 is open for applications. The challenge is hosted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Co-Develop, Gates Foundation, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure...
Giant carbon removal plant goes live
The largest direct air capture and storage plant for carbon removal, named Mammoth, has started operating in Iceland. Climeworks broke ground on Mammoth in June 2022. The plant is built in a modular design, with 12 of its total 72 collector containers currently...
Air travel industry improves baggage handling
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released a global progress report on the implementation of baggage tracking. Focused on IATA Resolution 753, which requires tracking baggage at acceptance, loading, transfer and arrival, the survey of 155 airlines...
Young scientists gear up for Regeneron science fair
A group of six young scientists from South Africa are set to showcase their scientific brilliance at the world's largest pre-college Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) competition in Los Angeles, California. The youngsters got the opportunity to...
2m customers help FlySafair celebrate its 10th anniversary
FlySafair's annual sale, offering 50 000 tickets with the airline for R10, attracted nearly 2-million people for its 10th anniversary edition celebrating "Flying with Heart". "We are extremely happy with how yesterday's sale went," says Kirby Gordon, chief marketing...
Business leaders are battling to keep up with e-commerce growth
A new report from Accenture reveals that 95% of South African leaders (versus 83% globally) think that e-commerce is growing faster than they can adapt, and are finding it costly to be where customers are. This shared feeling of falling behind affirms how difficult it...
Ransomware victims are engaging with law enforcement
Most (97%) of organisation hit by ransomware over the past year engaged with law enforcement and/or official government bodies for help with the attack. In addition, more than half (59%) of those organisations that did engage with law enforcement found the process...
Cybercriminals now opt for quality over quantity
Cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro says it blocked more than 159-million email threats, around 8-million malicious URLs, and over 22-million malicious mobile apps targeting South African businesses and consumers between January and December 2023. This, as threat...
Ransomware accounts for every third incident
Ahead of International Anti-Ransomware Day (12 May), Kaspersky's latest research reveals a concerning trend in the global cybersecurity landscape, with ransomware attacks accounting for every third cyber incident in 2023. The report sheds light on the escalating...
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As the market continues to digest the Competition Commission’s summary findings on the data services market in South Africa, some experts believe that their methodology in coming up with the findings was not necessarily the right approach. According to Sabelo Dlamini,...
Telecom market predictions for 2020
In the face of subscribers’ growing expectations and a demanding business community that relies on robust telecoms for their own digital initiatives, communications service providers (CSPs) are continuing to transform what they do and – even more important – how they...
Cloud, AI, RPA move into call centres in 2020
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Powering Africa through technology
Africa has become a shining beacon for technology investment and innovation, unlocking the continent’s economic potential and driving transformation. Today, many of the world’s multinationals have a presence on the continent which is undoubtedly indicative of...
VMware commits to innovating for good
VMware has released its annual Global Impact Report, detailing progress towards its 2020 vision to serve as “a force for good” across its three Global Impact pillars of products, planet and people. Some of the highlights include: Product: Create technology that...
Epson achieves EcoVadis Gold for CSR
Epson has been awarded a Gold rating for CSR by independent assessors EcoVadis for the third year in succession. The top rating also acknowledges Epson as being “Outstanding” in Sustainable Procurement and highlights its excellent achievement in Labour and Human...
Uganda, Ghana, Botswana lead with women-owned businesses
Uganda, Ghana and Botswana are ranked as the top three countries with the highest percentages of women-owned businesses across the 58 markets evaluated around the world in the third edition of the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE). Based on publicly...
What to expect from ransomware in the new year
Ransomware has become big business, generating estimated annual revenues of $1 billion a year for malicious threat actors. The victims of ransomware continue to stack up as criminals develop new, more creative ways to infiltrate IT environments, seize data and hold...
Swift opens KYC Registry to corporates
Swift has opened its global Know Your Customer (KYC) registry to Swift-connected corporate groups, enabling them to manage and share KYC data with their banking partners across the globe. The go-live for corporates follows a successful testing period with 18 leading...
HPE debuts Kubernetes-based platform
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the HPE Container Platform, an enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container platform designed for both cloud-native applications and monolithic applications with persistent storage. With the HPE Container Platform,...
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