AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

AI automation is having an impact on entry-level hiring

Nearly a quarter (22%) of CHROs report that at least one business leader in their organisation has stopped hiring for entry-level roles due to AI automation, according to Gartner. The 4Q25 Gartner survey of 110 heads of HR also found that 95% of organisations have...

Africa’s young people want jobs, clean government

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Even without data centres, Africa faces water bankruptcy

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When the love of your life is a serial scamster

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa Morocco 2024 -Cyber scams worldwide have cost more than $55-million and impact everyone, at all levels of society. But we still don’t have systems in place to effectively help the victims. One of the world’s best-known scam...

GenAI and its role in perpetrating and defending against cybercrime

Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa Morocco 2024 - Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has the potential to help improve cybersecurity defences – but it can be a powerful threat actor too. No-one is safe, says Ravi Bhat, chief technology and commercial...

Absa joins Hyperledger Foundation

Absa Bank is one of the newest members to join the Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies. The bank joins eight other new members from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas adding to the global footprint of...

Active insurance telematics policies on the rise

Berg Insight, the world's leading M2M/IoT market research provider, today released new findings about the connected wearables market. Shipments of connected wearables reached 96,5-million in 2016, up from 75,1-million devices in the previous year, according to Berg...

Video game developers not keen on NFTs

NFT gaming has attracted a lot of interest in recent months - but video game developers do not share the same interest. According to figures presented by SafeBettingSites.com, 70% of video game developers have no interest in implementing NFT mechanics in their games....

Innovation Hub names 2021 GAP Innovation Competition finalists

From a smart electricity system that could help to avoid load shedding to a hygienic toilet lid that can prevent sanitary infections, the 2021 finalists of the Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) Innovation Competition have developed a diverse range of novel ideas and...

Organisations set to increase their AI spending in 2022

Worldwide revenues for the artificial intelligence (AI) market, including software, hardware, and services, is forecast to grow 19,6% year over year in 2022 to $432,8-billion. This is according to the latest release of the International Data Corporation...

Tough decisions needed ahead of 2022 Budget

As we head towards the 2022 Budget Speech, set to take place on 23 February, Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has a mammoth task ahead of him - one that will require the grit and wisdom to make difficult decisions. That's the opinion of Mike Teuchert, national...

B2B e-commerce tipped to reach R250bn by 2030

Business to Business (b2b) e-commerce is expected to grow by at least 25% this year and be worth R250-billion by the end of the decade. This is the word from Denny Mo, MD of Commerce24, who says that two years of pandemic-fueled consumer growth in online sales could...

Consumers may have the right to access open-source software in devices

A US body has launched a legal challenge to Vizio, a TV manufacturer, for failing to provide the source code for the software in its smart TV, which may have implications for other software developers. By Leanne Mostert, partner and Cindy Leibowitz, knowledge lawyer...

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A regulatory checklist for SMEs

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Dac Systems markets Nintex mobile release

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The emergence of open source software

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Create an impression during job interviews

It has been said many times over, but the unavoidable truth in business is that job seekers that make it to the face-to-face interview stage are evaluated from the time they enter a room and, if they are lucky, a little while after they leave. HR and recruitment...

Ukuvuma boosts corporate security

Ukuvuma Solutions, a leading ICT consultancy and systems development specialist, has developed a comprehensive security and intelligent threat management system to help businesses strengthen the protection of their assets against an unwavering onslaught of attacks....

Yellowfin 7.1 analytics platform launches

Global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has launched the latest version of its BI platform, Yellowfin 7.1. Enhancements in Yellowfin 7.1 concentrated on extending three core technical areas, by boosting Location Intelligence...

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DevOps Lead at Parvana Recruitment

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Developer – C# (MASTER) at Parvana Recruitment

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