Aviation industry increases investment in cybersecurity
SITA's 2024 Air Transport IT Insights report reveals how airlines and airports are increasing investment in cybersecurity, biometrics and sustainable IT solutions to cope with growing digital threats and rising passenger numbers. Seventy-four percent of airlines and...
Vehicle market shows signs of recovery
The latest TransUnion South Africa Vehicle Pricing Index (VPI) for Q4 2024 reveals a cautiously optimistic outlook for the country’s automotive sector, with improving economic conditions encouraging consumer confidence while affordability challenges continue to shape...
Counting the cost of fuel price hikes
Fuel price hikes have had a big impact on South Africans' daily lives, as consumers spend more at the pump but get fewer litres of fuel in total. It is no surprise then that Discovery Insure's latest Drive Trends Report finds many are taking fewer work trips per...
Security outsourcing set to surge
Company bosses are boosting their cybersecurity following an alarming increase in cyberattacks. A new study commissioned by Kaspersky shows that 82% of companies surveyed in South Africa suffered at least one cyber incident over the last two years. One of the main...
Successful reinvention is good for the bottom line
Only 20% of South African enterprises are succeeding at digital transformation - yet those that are totally reinventing themselves to remain competitive are reporting 22% stronger revenue growth than those companies that have had limited or failed transformations,...
European AR/VR spending to hit $8,4bn by 2027
According to the Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide published by International Data Corporation (IDC), European augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) spending will reach $8,4-billion by 2027, reflecting a 22,4% five-year compound annual...
New AWS chips take on foundation model training
Amazon Web Services has announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families - AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 - delivering advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of customer workloads, including machine learning (ML)...
What COP28 could mean for Africa
The 28th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, more commonly referred to as COP28, brings together global leaders, experts, impacted communities, and decision-makers to continue efforts aimed at solving the world’s...
SA consumers hit hard by fraudsters
The scams deluge that flourished during the Covid-19 pandemic and proliferates yet today has heightened the public's fraud anxiety, according to a new consumer fraud study by SAS, and rampant fraud is also reshaping individuals' expectations about organisations'...
Deepfake incidents on the rise
Deepfake cyberattacks are on the rise, with South Africa seeing a massive 1 200% increase in deepfake fraud this year. This is among the findings from Sumsub's third annual Identity Fraud Report, which analyses identity fraud across industries and regions based on...
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Ride-request app aims to transport children
Parents in South Africa now have access to a new mobile application that aims to deliver a safe and affordable transport solution for their children to and from school and extra mural activities. Modeled on popular ride-request apps, Schoolride has been developed by a...
Risks and benefits in the race to hyperscale
Organisations are looking to move big data workloads to the cloud in increasing numbers. Andrew Cruise, MD of vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider Routed, says the hyperscale trend is best explained within a broader push towards OPEX and usage-based...
SneakyPastes: hits Middle East related targets in 39 countries
In 2018, the Gaza Cybergang, now known to comprise several groups of varying sophistication, launched a cyberespionage operation targeting individuals and organisations with a Middle-Eastern political interest. The campaign, named SneakyPastes, made use of disposable...
Workonline deploys RPKI-based BGP Origin Validation
Workonline Communications has become the first African wholesale IP transit provider to deploy Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Origin Validation (OV) to improve the security of Internet routing around the world. A specialised public key infrastructure (PKI)...
Acer adds Nitro 7, updated Nitro 5 Series gaming notebooks
Acer has announced the latest additions to the Nitro 7 and Nitro 5 gaming laptop series powered by Windows 10. The new Nitro 7 laptop is designed for casual gamers looking to boost their gaming performance as they connect with friends online. In addition, Acer has...
A holistic approach to achieving customer, economic value in financial services
What's keeping banking and financial services executives up at night in 2019? Take your pick of any number of issues: regulation, technology or new market entrants. One of the most contentious issues for many business leaders is how to create a unique customer...
Secure data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Security has always been one of the biggest concerns when moving data into the cloud, with public cloud often perceived as the least secure option. Nevertheless, the benefits of a hybrid environment have been made clear, and organisations have started to adopt public...
Hospitality Industry 4.0 still needs the human touch
While the Fourth Industrial Revolution presents immense opportunity for particularly the hospitality industry, the people-centred nature of these businesses will likely see human capital remaining an equally integral component to organisational success. "The Fourth...
Intentionally insecure: poor security practices in the cloud
So far this year, there have been five documented cases of organisations exposing their private data due to misconfigured S3 buckets or cloud databases. By Lori MacVittie, principal threat evangelist at F5 Networks Wait, let's fix that: due to intentionally configured...
Farmers will benefit from agritech disruption
Technology is changing the face of agriculture by enabling farmers to increase production, reduce costs and streamline activity across the entire agricultural value chain to help ensure that long-term food security is maintained. Termed 'disruptive technologies'...
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