As AI adoption grows, more security alerts are ignored

Security operations centres are facing mounting pressure from growing alert volumes, increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks, and persistent staffing constraints. According to Prophet Security's Second Annual State of AI in Security Operations Report, presented...

Roman telescope aims to travel 1m miles into space

This month could see the launch a new space telescope that aims to travel 1-million miles and record billions of galaxies. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could launch from the Kennedy Space Station as early as 30 August aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The Roman...

Climate change is redrawing the malaria map in Africa

Malaria is the deadliest climate-sensitive infectious disease. Yet, researchers and public health officials have debated how climate change has shaped its spread. A new Nature study by an international team, including the University of Cape Town (UCT), resolved this...

AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

Executives turn to hybrid work amid economic uncertainty

Research from International Workplace Group reveals that nine out of 10 c-suite executives are concerned about the business impact of macroeconomic instability. As a result, they are turning to hybrid working, empowering their people to work from a combination of...

Malatsi to brief parliament on proposed B-BBEE changes

Minister of Communication and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi will brief parliament tomorrow (27 May 2025) on a proposed policy change that would allow Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) equity equivalence in the telecommunications sector, in line with...

Epic road trip reveals mobile connectivity booming in rural Africa

What happens when a team of telecoms firewall experts abandon Zoom, ditch air travel, and choose instead to forge connections with their customers from one end of Africa to the other on an epic journey in Land Cruisers? The journey of 18 000km began in Barcelona on 1...

Corporates turn focus on to ESG and sustainability

Despite business leaders facing a multitude of issues and challenges, ESG and broader sustainability strategy have made their way to the top of board agendas in 2024, according to new research from KPMG International. Chief sustainability officers from some of the...

Sustainability reporting continues to mature

The world's largest organisations are providing more detail and breadth in their sustainability reporting - and are also obtaining a greater scope of assurance on those disclosures - according to an updated report from the International Federation of Accountants...

GenAI gains traction among HR leaders

A Gartner survey of 179 HR leaders in January this year has revealed that 38% of them are piloting, planning implementation, or have already implemented generative AI (GenAI) - up from 19% in June 2023. The top three use cases respondents said that they are...

Deal-making has never been more difficult for Big Tech

The merger and acquisition (M&A) landscape for Big Tech is undergoing a dramatic shift with increased regulatory scrutiny, particularly around antitrust concerns, making large acquisitions a challenge, says GlobalData. This trend extends beyond traditional M&A...

Global Energy & Utility companies are embracing AI

A new study - IBM's Global AI Adoption Index 2023 - reveals that 74% of global Energy & Utility companies have implemented or are exploring using AI in their operations - with 33% focusing AI projects on HR/Talent Acquisition and 27% focused on AI Monitoring &...

European networks lead the race to Net Zero

The carbon emissions of mobile network operators fell by 6% globally between 2019-2022, according to the GSMA's fourth Mobile Net Zero report, published yesterday at MWC Barcelona. The report reveals regional variations in the reduction of operational emissions, with...

A year of elections and politically-motivated DDoS attacks

This year is a significant one for elections on the global stage with more than 60 taking place worldwide - including national elections in the five most populous countries in the world. In fact, across the globe, more voters than ever before will make their way to...

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Set-your-own-price taxi app launches in Joburg

Ride hailing app inDriver has launched in Johannesburg, with 3 000 new drivers already registered on the app. The bargain for a fair price taxi app, used by 22-million people across more than 200 cities, announced its launch with the addition of a new safety button...

Visual storytelling is a powerful learning tool

Visual storytelling is fundamental to the human experience, and one of our oldest forms of expression. From using fire to animate cave art, to Greek theatre, film, and television, we've adapted the principle to every new technology available to us. By Glenn Gillis,...

Westcon-Comstor SMME partners take centre stage at Cisco Connect

Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa is emphasising reseller development, enablement and empowerment, by providing nine of its SMME Cisco partners across Africa the opportunity to showcase their businesses and services at the upcoming Cisco Connect event by way of the...

Tips for a business continuity plan that works

According to research conducted by the Business Continuity Institute in 2019, 71% of organisations activated their response plans at least once over the past year. "This finding is consistent with the previous year's survey, and indicates just how important it is to...

Arcserve unveils new unified data protection solution

Arcserve showcased its new version of Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP), at Nutanix's annual .NEXT Americas conference held earlier this month in California. Arcserve UDP is powered by heterogeneous, image-based technology designed to remove the multiple points...

Lessons learned from the latest WhatsApp hack

We were once again reminded that mobile devices, the one thing most of us never leave home without, are vulnerable to attacks. And once again, private individuals were attacked. Cyber security vendor Check Point unpacks the latest attacks and draws some conclusions....

F5 completes acquisition of NGINX

Multi-cloud application services provider F5 Networks has completed the acquisition of NGINX, an open source application delivery vendor. On 11 March 2019, F5 announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire NGINX. The combined company will enable...

Fujitsu, Veeam partner on simplified backup and recovery

Fujitsu and Veeam are focusing on simplifying backup and recovery for customers running mission-critical virtual machines in the data centre. This new partnership delivers increased availability of data and faster recovery from disasters and unplanned system downtime....

How to get the best out of fibre

South Africa's high-speed broadband Internet sector is a model of consumer choice, with consumers able to choose from a variety of ISPs providing Internet access and other services over the open-access fibre networks being rolled out across South Africa. However,...

Vox launches customised firewall service for SMEs

In light of the growing number of cyber threats facing modern organisations, integrated ICT and infrastructure provider Vox has announced the launch of a Managed Firewall Service aimed specifically at the country's small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Companies...

Senior Test Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Pretoria

We are seeking a Senior Test Analyst to join our dynamic team and play a key role in ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of our applications. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Test Analyst to work with cutting-edge test tools and automation...

Intermediate Software Developer (Java) (CH1070)

Our client, a leading payment aggregator and provider of secure payments solutions, is looking for an Intermediate Level Java Software Developer to join their team in Stellenbosch. This is a hybrid role.Responsibilities include:The role of Developer is divided into...

Performance Tester

Performance Tester - Contract - HybridPerformance Tester is needed to join the innovative team by helping and ensuring that critical components of an application perform as expected under varying user loads and to help evaluate the resource usage.Performance Tester...

Performance Tester – Remote Remote

Performance Tester - Contract - HybridPerformance Tester is needed to join the innovative team by helping and ensuring that critical components of an application perform as expected under varying user loads and to help evaluate the resource usage.Performance Tester...

Seismic Reporting Analyst (12-month contract)

The Reporting and Data Team consists of smaller sub teams: Onboarding and Change, Regulatory, Factsheets, Client Reporting and Prospect Data. Our client is responsible for the setup, production and distribution of regular client and regulatory reporting as well as...

Business ANalyst

Business Analyst - 12 Months Contract - Hybrid Business Analyst will take responsibility for defining requirements and product sets for configuration and maintenance of existing modulesDocument the end-to-end Credit process flows with reference to existing...

Business ANalyst – Remote Remote

Business Analyst - 12 Months Contract - Hybrid Business Analyst will take responsibility for defining requirements and product sets for configuration and maintenance of existing modulesDocument the end-to-end Credit process flows with reference to existing...

Oracle Developer at iCore

We are seeking a skilled Oracle Developer with expertise in Oracle Database 19c, PL/SQL packages, and procedures. In this role, you will develop and maintain database solutions, support client queries, and design new products based on business requirements. Key...

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