Mobile banking popularity leads to cybersecurity concerns
With research suggesting mobile banking usage is set to soar to 79% in the US by 2029, a new study has revealed which states are leading in mobile banking interest - but also highlighting the growing risk of cyberthreats that come with it. The study, conducted by...
Global insurance spend to hit $10trn by 2028
The global insurance market, including life and non-life insurance, has grown by 25% in the past four years with the total value of insurance premiums rising from just under $8-trillion in 2018 to over $9-trillion this year. And, although the annual growth rate...
TikTok prank mimics real fraud scheme
On TikTok, a prank where people call their friends using an automated answering machine voice to tell them that a large amount of money is about to be debited from their account is gaining popularity. But Kaspersky experts warn that this trend is a real fraud scheme,...
Mobile banking comes under attack
In its latest Global Threat Index for June 2022, Check Point Research (CPR) reports that a new Android banking malware has emerged, named MaliBot, following the takedown of FluBot at the end of May. Although only just discovered, MaliBot, a banking, has already...
SA consumers ramp up spend on streaming services
FNB has revealed that consumer spend on audio and video streaming services such as Apple iTunes, Spotify, Google Music, Deezer, Amazon Prime, ShowMax, Netflix and YouTube has increased by roughly 70% from the period before Covid-19 up to end of June 2022. Raj...
Zondo Report underscores need to enforce director accountability more rapidly
In its final report, the Zondo Commission repeatedly comments that directors of the various captured state entities have not been properly held accountable for the massive damage they have caused to the organisations they were supposed to serve, and thus indirectly to...
Webb images open up new understanding of the Universe
NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), has released the first full-colour images and spectroscopic data from the James Webb Telescope. The first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will...
R100m cloud SME investment as Huawei accelerates cloud plans
Huawei has announced that its third data centre availability zone is set to go live three years ahead of schedule, as well as its R100-million Cloud Spark programme, which is set to provide support to more than 1 000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over the...
Better security helps employees to innovate
Kathy Gibson reports – A massive 91% of IT leaders say that security is important to their business, a pointer to how vulnerabilities can cripple innovation. This is among the findings of the State of Cybersecurity in South Africa study conducted for Dell and Intel by...
Worldwide PC shipments dive
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs declined 15,3% year over year to 71,3-million units in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. This...
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The dynamics of CRM in the digital era
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Vox Telecom promotes CRM, ERP
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CCTV with remote monitoring is key
Video surveillance and CCTV solutions have become essential components of business security, providing visual evidence of misdeeds and their perpetrators, which acts as an effective deterrent for most petty crimes, says Laurence Smith, executive at Graphic Image...
Cubic Blue tackles GRC for big data
Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) group has launched a new company called Cubic Blue that specialises in enterprise information management (EIM) directed at big data, governance, risk and compliance (GRC). Cubic Blue is a reseller and implementation partner for...
VMware helps healthcare embrace mobile cloud
VMware has announced growing momentum for VMware solutions and services among healthcare organisations looking to embrace the mobile cloud. Using VMware vCloud for Healthcare and VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care, IT organisations have been able to offer the benefits of a...
Preventing watering hole malware attacks
A layered approach based on a combination of checks and balances, along with various key technologies, is the most comprehensive method of preventing so-called watering hole malware attacks. South African ICT managed cyber security provider and specialist Ukuvuma...
New assessment offering from DiData
Dimension Data has announced a new assessment offering that helps organisations assess the maturity of their security architecture, the underlying security safeguards that protect their human assets from cyber-attacks, and their processes and technologies. Sean Duffy,...
Build fans, not audiences
Gone are the days of the passive audience that is willing to receive marketing messages at the whim of the advertiser, says Richard Firth, chairman and CEO of MIP Holdings. The new, more demanding, generation of consumers, has been exposed to so much advertising that...
Datacentrix shows strong growth
Datacentrix has once again posted a solid set of financial results for the year ended 28 February 2015. Earnings grew by 16,4% from R89-million to R103-million, headline earnings per share (“HEPS”) increased by 16,2% to 53 cents, and operating margins increased from...
Data analytics translates to rands and cents
Kathy Gibson reports from Reimagine 2015 in Johannesburg – How companies use information is becoming more important than ever in an ever-changing world. This is according to Mohammed Nalla, head of strategic research at Nedbank Capital, speaking at the Microsoft...
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