SA most targeted in fraud attacks
Almost half (47%) of the 13 500 people polled in the SAS “Faces of Fraud” consumer study say they have experienced more fraud in 2022. South Africans were the most severely impacted, at 65%, following by Portugal at 62%. To counter rampant AI-fuelled scams, data and...
Identity threats top of mind
South Africans are growing more concerned over identity fraud threats, with 56,7% of businesses expressing concern or strong concern about future threats. This is among the findings of a new study by iiDENTIFii, “The Identity Index 2024: South Africa Edition”,...
Generative AI dominates Twitter influencer discussions
Generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) has become the latest Internet sensation with the introduction of ChatGPT and has created a rush among tech giants to put generative AI to work across industries. Against this backdrop, Twitter influencer discussions...
The changing face of financial roles …
CFOs have ambitious plans to reach a state of autonomous finance within the next three to six years that will require a significant reshaping of finance team structures to achieve, according to Gartner. "Most finance leaders, including many CFOs, are ill-equipped to...
Cloudflare thwarts biggest DDoS attack to date
Web infrastructure service Cloudflare has thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71-million requests per second. According to the company, the attack emanated from a botnet comprising more than 30 000 IP addresses...
Scammers are expanding their crypto-romance cons
Sophos, has released details of two expansive and still operational pig butchering, or sha zhu pan, rings - elaborate and lengthy financial fraud scams that can cost victims thousands of dollars - that scammers are operating from Asia. One of the rings, based in Hong...
Women are being shut out of Web3
Web3 companies - those developing radical new applications involving the metaverse, blockchain technologies, and cryptocurrencies that are set to transform many global industries - are on the cutting edge of shaping the future of the digital world. But in one aspect...
Tourists are travelling back to SA’s biggest cities
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed positive signs of recovery for the South African travel and tourism sector, with travellers heading back to its major cities. The report, researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analysed key...
What to expect from the upcoming budget
Kathy Gibson reports - Amid bearish predictions about economic growth, most (59%) of South African CEOs expect local GDP growth to decline this year. Among the challenges businesses are grappling with are structural issues, while electricity supply is having a major...
SA leads the African move to cloud
Kathy Gibson reports - South African companies expect to massively increase their investment in cloud this year. Seventy-three percent of South African respondents in the "Cloud in Africa" study released today by World Wide Worx in conjunction with Red Hat and F5 say...
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Fortinet issues advice for the safe use of Smart
Fortinet, the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, dispensed advice for users of smart locks, which are finding broader and more numerous applications across Asia Pacific. The lock and key were created about 4 000 years ago, when human beings...
Kaspersky unveils flagship product in Nigeria
Kaspersky Lab has announced the availability of the new version of its flagship security solution, Kaspersky Internet Security - multi-device in Nigeria, which provides users with additional opportunities to manage their Internet protection and to ensure the safety of...
Retrospect supports cloud backup to Dropbox
Intact Software Distribution, distributor of the Retrospect range of backup, recovery, and hybrid data protection solutions, has announced that Retrospect now supports cloud backup to Dropbox. "Dropbox has around 500 million users worldwide, and it is the most...
SA payments startup expands into Africa
Peach Payments, a fintech startup that makes customer payments to online merchants seamless and secure, is now processing more than R1-billion in transactions per year and expanding into Kenya and Nigeria with plans for other African countries. The business started...
New features for Commvault Data Platform
Commvault has introduced new innovations in the Commvault Data Platform for Software Defined Data Services, enhanced orchestration and simplicity, extending its leadership in the backup, recovery and archive space. Launched at its inaugural customer conference,...
Jasco switches to Avaya Fabric Connect Network
Jasco offers a range of Avaya networking solutions as part of their service portfolio and has recently put their money where their mouth is by upgrading their own network to Avaya's Fabric Connect. Avaya Fabric Connect is a network virtualisation solution that offers...
Absa to offer walletdoc for bill payment
Absa has partnered with walletdoc, a South African fintech startup, offering users a smart, secure and convenient way to pay their bills such as monthly subscriptions and utilities - without the tedious filing and administration normally associated with payments. The...
R&M, Tank Industries launched fibre optic innovation
International cabling solutions specialist R&M and its South African-based fibre optic network component manufacturer Tank Industries have launched R&M's new SYNO dome gel cold sealing and modular cable entry solution into the South African market. The new...
Fujitsu debuts all-flash storage
Fujitsu today changes the dynamics of primary storage in enterprise computing environments with the introduction of super-fast, all-flash storage systems. New Eternus AF all-flash models are Fujitsu's fastest-ever storage systems, bringing all-flash technology within...
Euphoria beats the system for toll-free calls
While the fierce battle continues to brew between mobile operators and voice service providers over the cost of toll-free calls, Euphoria Telecom has introduced a toll-free system that enables free calls from all cellphone numbers. The service was initially developed...
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