SA has world’s highest cyberattack rate, identity visibility gap

South African companies have significant gaps in workforce password security, underscoring growing risks as they contend with rising cyber threats, increasing regulatory pressure, and limited visibility into user identities and access. This is according to a new study...

AI-enabled attacks drive ransomware surge

Cybercrime no longer functions as a series of isolated campaigns. Today, it operates as a system, with malicious hackers operating across an end-to-end life cycle and compressing the attack life cycle with shadow agents. This is the headline finding from the 2026...

Employees are the biggest cyber threat – and it will only get worse

South Africa experienced a 46% increase in insider cyber risk in 2026, surpassing the global average of 44%. What’s more, 63% of South African companies surveyed expect insider‑driven data losses to increase as growing numbers of disgruntled employees are resorting to...

Interconnected systems at risk of a digital pandemic

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How enterprises are looking to succeed with GenAI

Recent research by Qlik shows that enterprises are planning significant investments in technologies that enhance data fabrics to enable generative AI success and are looking to a hybrid approach that incorporates generative AI with traditional AI to scale its impact...

Advanced tactics in cyberattacks using MATA toolset

Kaspersky cybersecurity teams (GReAT and CERT) have unveiled significant developments in the cyber espionage activities targeting Eastern European industrial companies with the use of the updated MATA toolset. The investigation - spanning months - exposed...

New tool aims to improve policing transparency

In response to the many complaints received on police corruption, Corruption Watch (CW) has developed a new Veza platform that will improve transparency in policing in the country. Corruption Watch (CW) selected Bluegrass Digital to develop the new Veza platform. The...

M4Jam wins global award

South African gig technology company M4Jam, which provides a digital networking platform for workers in the gig economy, has won a World Summit Award (WSA) for its role in using technology with smart content to address global development gaps. The WSA awards, which...

Women’s Day phishing scams abound

Kaspersky researchers are reporting on phishing pages purporting to be gift offers for International Women’s Day . The fraudsters exploit users who wish to buy presents for women on International Women’s Day. In 2021 some of them are even offering such gifts for free....

Advancing women still not a business priority

Despite heightened awareness of the challenges facing women in the workplace driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, gender equity is still not a top priority for 70% of global businesses. This is according to business professionals surveyed in new IBM Institute for Business...

Covid-19 reverses women’s workforce gains

Progress for women in work could be back at 2017 levels by the end of 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to analysis conducted for PwC's annual Women in Work Index, which measures female economic empowerment across 33 Organisation for...

Covid-19 impacts gender equality, erodes hard-won progress

Covid-19 is eroding the hard-won progress made towards many aspects of parity over recent decades. As the Institute for Fiscal Studies noted that the nature of the economic shock associated with the pandemic has touched many old and deep inequalities, gender...

NASA’s Perseverance takes maiden drive on Mars

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars on 4 March, covering 6,5m across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem,...

Hafnium exploit strikes Microsoft Exchange servers

Following Microsoft's news about Hafnium, IT Security company Sophos has been closely monitoring the issue and is providing regular advice on how organizations should threat hunt and mitigate the attack/potential attack. Microsoft has detected multiple zero-day...

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Ruckus grows presence in Botswana

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MicroStrategy, BITanium deliver BI solutions

Business intelligence (BI) solutions provider BITanium has partnered with global enterprise software giant MicroStrategy to deliver off-site BI solutions to South African enterprises. Chris O’Connell, BITanium MD, says BITanium, one of  the biggest MicroStrategy...

Print management solutions unlock value

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Qlikview, Pragma sign agreement

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Samsung announces Dream the Blues winners

Samsung Electronics South Africa yesterday announced the two winners of the South African leg of the global Samsung Electronics and Chelsea "Dream the Blues" football training camp competition, which took place in Johannesburg the past weekend (16 and 17 February...

Technology integration a healthcare headache

92,5% of healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical executives have become more reliant on technology during the last three years.  According to Richard Pinker, MD of Ricoh SA, 70% of healthcare executives agree it has made their employees more creative in terms of...

The key to successful start-ups

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Bytes SI partners with Sithabile

Bytes Systems Integration (Bytes SI), which designs, implements and manages IT solutions built on the best global technology available, has been appointed as a core value-added reseller by Sithabile Technology Services, a data protection and data management solutions...

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My client based in Cape Town (North) is currently looking for 2 x Business Analysts to join them on an independent contact basis Hybrid work model / Contract / Rates : Neg / Cape Town basedFinancial Services / Insurance First requirement:Business Analyst for a...

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