Scam campaign hits industrial organisations
Kaspersky experts detected intensified scam activity this European summer, when cybercriminals tried to steal corporate email credentials by mimicking messages from a well-known logistics company. Attackers targeted organisations in various countries, including...
Anton Jacobsz steps down as Exclusive Networks Africa MD
Anton Jacobsz has stepped down as MD of Exclusive Networks Africa. Jacobsz, who has headed the distributor for over 10 years, will remain a shareholder with the organisation as well as serving in an advisory capacity moving forward. In early 2022, Exclusive Networks...
Strong growth for consumer asset tracking devices
The number of active consumer asset tracking devices in Europe and North America reached 11,2-million at the end of 2021, according to Berg Insight. Growing at a CAGR of 20,4% the active installed base is estimated to reach 28,3-million units in 2026, with market...
New pothole app for Gauteng motorists
The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has launched a new province-wide app - PotholeFixGP - allowing road users to report poor road conditions and other road maintenance issues. The new app can currently be downloaded from the Google Play Store and will soon...
Cybercrime complexity drives changes in the CISO role
Kathy Gibson reports – Cybersecurity is not a simple exercise: there is no quick solution to a complex situation. Tony Olivier, acting-chief information security officer (CISO) at Imperial Logistics and also co-author of the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill of South...
Security underpins digital transformation
Kathy Gibson reports – Covid-19 has driven a paradigm shift in how business uses technology, which is now relied upon to drive businesses. Abdul Moosa, Chief Technology Officer of CoCre8 Technology Solutions, explains that business is no longer siloed, but rather...
Cheaper overseas calls could soon be a reality
The Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (ISPA) has welcomed moves by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) to conduct a cost modelling exercise with regards to voice call termination rates and to introduce curbs on charges from local voice...
SMEs under cyber attack
When a small business owner is faced with the responsibilities of production economics, financial reports and marketing all at the same time, cybersecurity can often appear complicated and, at times, unnecessary. However, this disregard for IT security is being...
DDoS attacks still above pre-pandemic levels
The total number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks fell 13% in 2021 over 2020, but were still well above pre-pandemic levels. According to Nexusguard researchers in the recently released DDoS Statistical Report for 2021, while the average attack size...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captures video of record flight
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's black-and-white navigation camera has provided dramatic video of its record-breaking 25th flight, which took place on 8 April. Covering a distance of 704m at a speed of 5,5m per second, it was the Red Planet rotorcraft's longest and...
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Fujitsu expands Primergy line-up
Fujitsu has announced the expansion of its Primergy dual-socket server line up, with new models specifically designed to enable business growth in data centres that are limited in their overall expansion by energy and space restrictions. The new Fujitsu rack and blade servers are designed to reduce cost, improve efficiency and accelerate workloads to deliver optimum, scalable levels of productivity while still meeting specific maximum limits in terms of use of rack space, plus caps on power and cooling.
Avaya upgrades RCOM’s call centre
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Clatterbuck appointed as Seacom CEO
Seacom, Africa’s foremost network service provider and ICT enabler, today announced the appointment of Byron Clatterbuck as its CEO. Clatterbuck is an industry veteran with more than 18 years’ experience in the global telecommunications industry. He has held a number...
Five reasons you can’t ignore SDN
Software-defined networking (SDN) is set to be one of the most disruptive developments in IT, yet most businesses lack awareness as to its implications. Shiraaz Singh, head of Networking Solutions at Aptronics, believes this needs to change. Forget cloud, big data and the Internet of things for a second – there’s something just as big that most IT executives and businesses are blissfully unaware of. It’s called SDN and it’s the future of networking.
HelloCash platform launches in Ethiopia
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M-Net studios use solution from Jasco
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CA solution included in SAP offering
CA Technologies has announced that its customer experience monitoring technology has been added as part of the SAP Extended Diagnostics application by CA. With the inclusion of these capabilities, the SAP solution now combines deep diagnostics with customer experience...
Net1 launches Zazoo in the UK
Zazoo is well-positioned to become an exciting global technology company at the forefront of payment solutions, with a range of innovative products. Net 1 UEPS Technologies has announced that it has established a new subsidiary in the United Kingdom called Zazoo to...
A new approach to processing systems
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DiData awards matriculants with grants
Dimension Data has, for the second year in a row, contributed R100 000 towards an initiative set up by the City of Johannesburg to recognise and reward the achievements of the top matriculants at 20 of the city's highest achieving “no-fee” township schools. The...
Support System Administrator – Gauteng Pretoria
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