Popular cloud platforms exploited in phishing attacks
New Kaspersky research into phishing activity leveraging legitimate cloud platforms has revealed over 390 000 such attacks have been carried out in the last 12-months alone. These campaigns leverage trusted services such as Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub...
Semiconductor ceramics market to reach $16,7bn by 2033
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Most audit teams lack strategic adoption and application of AI
While 93% of audit leaders report some level of AI use, only 38% have an AI strategy, according to a new survey by Gartner. The webinar poll of 743 audit professionals, taken in 2026, revealed that generative AI (GenAI) use cases in internal audit centre on isolated...
NYDA calls on government, business to prioritise youth employment
South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis requires structural economic transformation and job-creating growth. This is the word from the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), which notes with serious concern the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the...
Home Affairs rolls out ETA system
The Department of Home Affairs has launched South Africa’s Electronic Travel Authorisation platform. The system is part of the department’s drive to digitise services, says Minister Leon Schreiber. It has already rolled out digitalised smart-ID replacement services in...
The question investors should ask about Nvidia’s $500bn deal
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ICASA’s 2026 spectrum overhaul explained
South Africa's spectrum landscape is shifting, write Livia Dyer, Karl Blom, partners, and Humayra Hajat, senior associate at Webber Wentzel. Between April and July 2026, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (the DCDT) published the Electronic...
Cisco debuts Antares AI models
Cisco has introduced Antares, a family of small language AI models (SLMs) purpose-built to tackle one of the most difficult and time-consuming challenges in cybersecurity: finding hidden security flaws within software codebases, on-premises, without externalising...
July economic activity reverses two months of decline
South Africa’s economic activity improved in July 2026, following a challenging performance in June and May, according to the PayInc Economic Index. Lower fuel prices provided some relief, while record transaction volumes point to resilient economic activity. However,...
Phishing, ransomware dominate cyberthreats in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports – Phishing is still the biggest cybersecurity threat in Africa, accounting for 17,5% of the cyberattacks on the continent. This is according to the ESET H1 2026 Threat Report, which found that the phishing threat is elevated in South Africa, where...
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Cloud costs keep rising. Optimisation needs an owner
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Vox’s wholesale ISP services empower local ISPs
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AI-backed platform targets inequality in early learning
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Youth unemployment crisis demands an AI skills revolution
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Senior Cyber Security Technical Architect at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
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