Call to bury the password once and for all
All signs point to the average password being hopelessly insecure. Let's drop the poor passwords and protect our data and organisations in other ways, writes Anna Collard, senior vice-president: content strategy and evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa. Today (2 May) is World...
Canal+ ups its Mutlichoice shareholding to 42,47%
Canal+ has acquired a further 3 868 391 Multichoice shares, in on/off market transactions. This brings the French media group's shareholding in Multichoice to approximately 42,47% of the issued share. Canal+ has disclosed the acquisitions to to the Takeover Regulation...
E-commerce, blockchain drive collectibles growth
A pandemic-driven boom in online sales of collectibles sent the global collectibles market to a record high in 2020. According to the research data analysed and published by MejoresApuestas.com, the global collectibles market was estimated to be worth $372-billion in...
Newly-discovered stealer targets gaming accounts
Kaspersky researchers have discovered an advanced Trojan, dubbed the BloodyStealer, sold on darknet forums and used to steal gamers' accounts on popular gaming platforms such as Steam, Epic Games Store, and EA Origin. With features to avoid analysis and detection, a...
Ransomware looms large in the threat landscape
More organisations are more concerned about ransomware than other cyberthreats, according to Fortinet's 2021 Global State of Ransomware Report. However, while the majority of organizations surveyed indicated they are prepared for a ransomware attack, including...
SA users bullish about cryptocurrencies
A significant 82% of South Africans who hold cryptocurrency on the Luno platform expect the bitcoin price to rise significantly, some believe as high as $100 000. Bitcoin is trading at around $43 600 currently after reaching $50 000 at the end of August. More than 1...
Medical scheme customer satisfaction, loyalty at a six-year low
The pandemic has brought no reprieve for medical schemes, even with heightened consumer consciousness of the need for access to private, quality healthcare and the role that medical scheme membership plays in providing such access. Overall customer satisfaction of...
Roll up your sleeves for a Vooma Vaccination Weekend
South Africans and people who live in South Africa will have an opportunity on Friday and Saturday, 1 and 2 October 2021, to protect themselves against Covid-19 in a nationwide mass vaccination drive hosted by government and civil society. The public and private...
Young people urge leaders to protect the most vulnerable against climate change
More than 2 000 young leaders and youth-led organisations from across the Commonwealth are urging governmentts to respect the needs and contributions of the world's most vulnerable groups, in the lead up to global climate talks in Glasgow in November. The Commonwealth...
Mobile Internet now connects more than half the world’s people
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, more than half of the world's population is now using the mobile internet, with just over 4-billion people now connected - 225-million more compared to 2019, and up from a third of people globally just six years ago. Even with this...
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World’s leading SSD now available in SA
Computer Storage Services (CSSI) recently announced that it has secured exclusive distribution rights for the Toshiba solid state drives (SSDs). Having its own Marvel Chipset, Toshiba Storage Device Division has released a market contender product that rivals the best...
Gemalto brings Facebook Messenger to mobile
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has expanded its LinqUs Facebook for SIM software application to include Facebook Messenger, bringing the popular and fast-growing messaging service to the much wider group of all mobile subscribers with any type of...
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-4 sets world record
The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-4 sets a new world record with aggregate throughput of 17,244.22 SPC-2 MBPS with SPC-2 Price Performance of $22.53. The SPC-2 benchmark consists of three application-oriented sequential I/O performance tests, which include large file...
Appletiser juices up ITSM with Nimsoft
Global beverage company, Appletiser, has deployed CA’s Nimsoft Monitor technology with resulting sparkling business benefits. The successful implementation – which was carried out by CA Southern Africa in just five days – enables Appletiser to monitor its entire IT...
Acer announces T272HUL 27-inch monitor
Acer has unveiled the T272HUL display featuring a 27-inch WQHD LED display with 10-point multi-touch for a touch more viewing real estate and collaborative experience. The built-in Web cam and microphone allows users to set-up vibrant video conferences in full HD....
Reclam claims control of its yard operations
The physical logistics involved in collecting and processing more than 1,5-million tonnes of scrap metals, glass, plastics, paper, cardboard, oil and rubber is enormous. Add to this the need for accurate data capturing and reporting across more than 70 locations in...
Cannon wins Frost & Sullivan award
Cannon Technologies has once again been recognised by Frost & Sullivan after it was presented with the 2013 European Technology Innovation Leadership Award in Racks and Cabinets at an awards ceremony today in San Jose, CA. This prestigious accolade was given for...
Data governance must drive big data strategy
Data governance trumps big data and this can demonstrated with the recent National Security Agency (NSA) extradition debacle, says Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. Briefly, Edward Snowden is an American computer specialist who worked for the Central...
Entersekt stores encryption keys in cloud
Transaction authentication provider, Entersekt, has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store the encryption keys for its Transakt application. Leveraging AWS’ CloudHSM service, Entersekt will now store the encryption keys for Transakt, the mobile application that...
Video-based customer service
Video-based customer service is a key growth area. Think about the new Google+ platform – how it is designed to allow us to use easy, Google+ spontaneous video chat to strike up conversations with others, says Peter Flanagan, Genesys regional director: Southern &...
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