Threat actors are chaining different combinations of attacks together like Lego bricks to sneak past detection tools, according to HP's quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report. Based on data from millions of endpoints running HP Wolf Security, researchers...

Trend Micro's close cooperation with global law enforcement authorities has led to another major win after the dismantling of a prolific phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) operation. Zaheer Ebrahim, solutions architect for Middle East and Africa at Trend comments: "Trend...

CIOs and IT decision makers (ITDMs) are looking to maximise investments and drive innovation after a difficult year which raised the profile of IT leaders. This is among the findings from Cisco's new Accelerating Digital Agility research. Over the past 12 months, CIOs...

Dimension Data has announced the appointment of Nompumelelo Mokou as MD for its southern Africa business, effective 1 April 2021. Mokou joined Dimension Data in 2016 and has most recently headed up its intelligent customer experience business for Middle East and...

The majority of small and medium-sized businesses across five countries in the developing world, viewed digital capabilities as the most important survival factor in the current business environment and beyond. This is a key finding of a study recently conducted by...

South Africa's flagship co.za Internet domain has from March 2020 to February 2021 experienced net growth of about 73 000 domain names, while renewals were 6,5% higher than the previous 12 months. The solid performance by co.za takes its current tally to over 1 300...

In view of the global Covid-19 pandemic, 44% of employees in South Africa are thinking of shifting to a new job in the next 12-months. According to Kaspersky's "Securing the Future of Work" report, the two biggest drivers that people stated for this career change are...

There's been a 48% surge in cyberattack volumes globally, since March 2020, with sudden increases in cyberattack volumes corresponding to spikes in Covid-19 infection rates in April and October. In sub-Saharan Africa there was a 41% increase in cyberattacks from 2019...

The GSMA's annual "State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money" reveals a dramatic acceleration in mobile transactions during the Covid-19 pandemic as lockdown restrictions limited access to cash and financial institutions. The report found that the number of...

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on 24 March that consumer price inflation declined from 3,2% y-o-y in January 2021 to 2,9% y-o-y in February. The latest reading was slightly below expectations (3% y-o-y) and the lowest reading in eight months, according to...