When the love of your life is a serial scamster
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GenAI and its role in perpetrating and defending against cybercrime
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Smart gas meter penetration hits 33% in Europe
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Pandemic highlights the threat of interconnected risks
With ransomware attacks filling the headlines and the Covid-19 pandemic pushing organisations to embrace remote working and online business models, cyber security has become a top-of-mind concern for many business leaders. It should come as no surprise, then, that...
SA in need of a growth mandate
While the pandemic may not be over, the major economies are shifting their mindset and focusing increasingly on the potential risks and rewards of a more sustainable long-term recovery and route to sustainable growth. This is one of the trends spotted by chief...
CFO 4.0 instrumental in building the factory of the future
The manufacturing chief financial officer (CFO) will play a critical strategic, innovative and financial role in the business moving forward. A Syspro study into the CFO 4.0, which was conducted in July to September 2021, assessed the sentiment amongst senior level...
Connectivity issues disrupt IoT rollouts
Despite the accelerating speed of Internet of Things (IoT) adoption over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, poor or unreliable connectivity is a key barrier limiting the success of IoT projects for most organisations. According to Inmarsat research, "Industrial IoT...
Future cyberattacks will be more disruptive
Cyber adversaries are evolving and expanding their attack methods to target new areas for exploit spanning the entire attack surface especially as work-from-anywhere continues. They are looking to maximise opportunity from the 5G-enabled edge, to the core network,...
Is Black Friday still relevant after repo rate hikes?
There has been some debate around whether Black Friday is relevant in South Africa, especially given the consumer's stretched budget in 2021 - which was put under further pressure last week as the repo rate rose to 25 basis points. However, a consumer survey carried...
Online payment fraud shoots up as Black Friday approaches
The growth of phishing attacks mimicking e-payment pages was spotted in the run-up to the Black Friday period. The total number of financial phishing attacks disguised as e-payment systems more than doubled from September (627 560) to October 2021 (1 935 905),...
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Control data with Trend Micro’s Safesync
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Photoshop now has 3D printing capabilities
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Scrum Master – Gauteng Johannesburg
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Senior Python Engineer
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