New phishing campaigns aimed at students and educators
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Remote monitoring of patients on the rise … and rising
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Global PC shipments set to drop 9,5%
Worldwide PC shipments are on pace to decline 9.5% in 2022, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. The PC market is expected to experience the steepest decline of all device segments this year. "A perfect storm of geopolitics upheaval, high inflation, currency...
Backdoor targets governments and NGOs in Middle East, Turkey and Africa
Kaspersky experts have brought to light a poorly detected SessionManager backdoor that was set up as a malicious module within the Internet Information Services (IIS), a popular web server edited by Microsoft. Once propagated, SessionManager enables a wide range of...
Identity, access management tipped to hit $26bn
A new study from Juniper Research has found that global spend on identity and access management solutions will rise from $16-billion in 2022 to $26-billion by 2027; representing an absolute growth of 62% over the next five years. Identity and access management...
Intel Labs in integrated photonics research breakthrough
Intel Labs has announced a significant advancement in its integrated photonics research – the next frontier in increasing communication bandwidth between compute silicon in data centers and across networks. The latest research features industry-leading advancements in...
Strong growth in spending on compute, storage infrastructure
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 17,2% year over year in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) to $18,3-billion, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
The rapid rise of zero trust security adoption
A significant 35% of WAN managers implemented one or more elements of zero trust security (ZTS) and secure access service edge (SASE) on at least some of their company's networks in 2021. This is up from 8% in 2019, according to TeleGeography's latest WAN Manager...
IoDSA supports Zondo Commission recommendation for Appointment Committee
The Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) broadly welcomes the recommendation to establish a Standing Appointment and Oversight Committee to strengthen the process of nominating and appointing directors of state-owned enterprises. The recommendation was made...
How Big Tech handles user data will be critical after Roe
Following the US Supreme Court's decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion, data privacy advocates and pro-abortion groups are raising concerns about tech companies sharing user data with law enforcement agencies in states where abortion is illegal....
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BT launches service to combat cyber-threats
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LTE-U goes live in Ericsson labs
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Sony releases new Xperia E4
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POPI hinges on good information management
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Digital advertising to replace billboards
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The drivers of a cashless society
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Kaspersky releases independent test results
Kaspersky Lab is pleased to announce the results of 22 tests carried out by independent research companies in Q4 2014. The experts tested Kaspersky Lab’s security solutions and those of other vendors: they analysed how effectively popular security products detect new, unknown malware including mobile malware, protect against phishing and financial threats, and how they affect device performance.
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