South Africans are deeply connected to their culture and cultural beliefs, but scam artists and conmen are quickly learning how to take advantage of this. Followers of the fundamental traditional African belief system believe they are watched over by their ancestors...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened its first international AWS Skills Centre on the African continent in Cape Town, continuing on its mission to remove the barriers of access to cloud skills training. The centres are Amazon's dedicated, in-person cloud learning...

Global spending on IT devices such as PCs, tablets and mobile phones plunged by 8% year-on-year (YoY) to $653-billion in 2020. This figure is expected to recover to $705-billion in 2021, still $7-billion less than before the pandemic, according to data presented by...

Two-thirds (69% in META) of threat intelligence (TI) analysts are involved in professional communities, but 44% of all those working in IT and cybersecurity roles are not allowed to share threat intelligence artifacts discovered through those communities. This is...

Digital technology has done much to help life carry on as near to normal as possible during the pandemic. Video conversations with customers and colleagues are now taken for granted, while cloud-based document-sharing apps allow ongoing co-operation and collaboration....

MTN increased its subscribers increased by 28,8 million to 279,6-million during the financial year ended 31 December 2020. The group has 280-million customers in 21 markets. During the year, group service revenue grew by 19,9%. EBITDA (before once-off items) grew by...

Financial institutions are spending, on average, 14% of annual operating costs on change management functions in order to drive greater productivity gains, a new PwC study has shown. According to PwC's report, "Productivity 2021 and beyond: Upskilling the workforce of...

Devices with Windows operating systems were affected by over 111-million malware infections during 2020, according to data analysed by the Atlas VPN team. Out of all of the Windows malware threats detected last year, 83% or nearly 92,3-million were found on consumer...

Parents and child guardians are advised to adopt a multilayered approach to online safety that recognises today's new realities. SA's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA), the non-profit industry representative body representing 197 of South Africa's...

The bitcoin price could hit an all-time high of $60 000 this week as the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass Democrats' $1,9-trillion stimulus bill. The forecast from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes as the...