While just under half of employees surveyed in South Africa (42%) said they could tell a deepfake from a real image, only 21% could actually distinguish a real image from an AI-generated one in a test, says Kaspersky. This means that organisations are vulnerable to...

The 2023 holiday shopping season saw the highest average discount rate since 2020 and an increase in AI-influenced purchases, according to new research by Salesforce. Based on the digital shopping activity of over 1,5-billion shoppers across Commerce Cloud, Marketing...

After more than a year in which millions of office workers around the globe were forced to work from home for months and did so (mostly) successfully, businesses are faced with the question of whether 2021 heralds the end of the physical office. Downscaling or even...

One of the major legacies of the pandemic is an expectation by workers that they will be allowed to work remotely more often. This is according to a new study Decoding Global Ways of Working by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and The Network, including local partner...

Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) reports released by IHS Markit in the first week of April shows that, while African private sector activity continued to improve during the first quarter of 2021, growth lagged global trends. PwC's calculations show that PMIs for eight...

The number of annual credential spills has nearly doubled in the last four years, according to the latest Credential Stuffing Report. The report also estimated that the average spill size in 2020 was 17-million records. Those millions of credentials, including emails,...

Check Point Research (CPR) has discovered a new and innovative malicious threat on the Google Play app store which spreads itself via mobile users' WhatsApp conversations, and can also send further malicious content via automated replies to incoming WhatsApp messages....

In early 2021, threat actors conducted a series of attacks using the Cring ransomware. These attacks were mentioned by Swisscom CSIRT, but it remained unclear how the ransomware infects an organisation's network. An incident investigation conducted by Kaspersky ICS...

Absa Group has launched a cloud incubator initiative in collaboration with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), to enhance its cloud computing skills across its operations in Africa. As one of the largest cloud adopters in Africa, Absa is promoting cloud fluency as part of...

Nearly half of South African consumers (46%) would walk away from an online service provider if it suffered any form of data breach, according to a study of 15 000 consumers worldwide, conducted by global security company Kaspersky. The idea of avoidable data misuse...