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

Are we ready for solar storms, submarine cable cuts, satellite disruptions, and extreme weather to disrupt communication networks and potentially trigger a “digital pandemic"? A new report – “When digital systems fail: The hidden risks of our digital world​" –...

Submissions open for first Xero Beautiful Business Fund

Xero has opened applications for its inaugural Xero Beautiful Business Fund, with more than R8,000,000 in funding available globally. Four South African Xero small business customers will each win R250 000, with an additional R545 000 available in each category should...

Webb reveals intricate details in the remains of a dying star

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained images of the Ring Nebula, one of the best-known examples of a planetary nebula. Much like the Southern Ring Nebula, one of Webb’s first images, the Ring Nebula displays intricate structures of the final stages of a dying...

Fraudsters exploit employees’ social networks

There are several web services that employees of small and medium businesses most frequently access while working, including YouTube, Facebook, Google services and WhatsApp, with some of these applications being the most exploited by cybercriminals as a springboard...

EOH reports sustained improvement

EOH Holdings has reported an improvement of between 70% and 76% to the previously reported total headline loss per share in a trading statement for the 12 months ended 31 July 2020. The group generated both positive EBITDA, before normalisation adjustments, and...

Electoral Commission warns of a job scam

The Electoral Commission of South Africa has issued a warning to the public about fraudsters using an online job advertisement in the name of the organisation to obtain personal information from unsuspecting job-seekers. The Commission warns that the advertisement...

Cyber crime costs industry up to $8trn a year

Cyber crime is costing businesses worldwide between $4-trillion and $8-trillion annually and has the potential to grow 20-fold over the next few years. This is the message from cyber protection company Acronis CEO and founder Serguei Beloussov speaking at the Acronis...

IDC outlines roadmap to recovery

Kathy Gibson reports from the virtual IDC CIO Summit - The world has largely weathered the Covid-19 storm and is ready to start feeling its way to the new normal. That's the word from Crawford Del Prete, president of IDC, who believes that organisations are now...

Intel powers first satellite with AI on board

As ubiquitous as artificial intelligence (AI) has become in modern life -- from boosting our understanding of the cosmos to surfacing entertaining videos on your phone -- AI hasn't yet found its way into orbit. That is until 2 September, when an experimental satellite...

Osiris-REx tags Surface of Asteroid Bennu

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the Osiris-REx mission's Touch-And-Go (Tag) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager's field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu's surface, over 321-million km away...

Strive for composability to stay resilient and agile

CIOs and IT leaders who use composability to deal with continuing business disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic and other factors will make their enterprises more resilient, more sustainable and make more meaningful contributions, according to Gartner. Gartner...

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