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​" –...

Crypto scam victims seldom recover losses

A new BanklessTimes.com report details the havoc that scammers continue to wreak on the cryptocurrency sector. The site has presented data indicating that crypto investors lost $667-million to different scams in the first half of 2023. It also highlights the...

PayShap nears 1m transactions

PayShap, the low-value real-time interbank digital payments service, has shown a robust market uptake since its launch in March this year, having recorded more than 800 000 transactions with a settlement value in excess of R660-million. "In the first few months of its...

Economic uncertainty makes low-cost smartphones popular

Economic uncertainties have increased the downward pressure on smartphone prices globally, with 73% of shipments in 2020 expected to be priced below $400, according to a new price band forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile...

Fujitsu overcomes facial authentication fraud

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a facial recognition technology that uses conventional cameras to successfully identify efforts to spoof authentication systems. This includes impersonation attempts in which a person presents a printed photograph or an image from...

China grows supercapacitor activity

In 2010, there were no Chinese manufacturers in the top 10 supercapacitor manufacturers - but in 2020, 40% of them are Chinese. This is one of the findings in the IDTechEx Research report, "Supercapacitor Markets, Technology Roadmap, Opportunities 2021-2041". The rise...

Deloitte hit with record fine over Autonomy audit

A massive 15-million pound fine has been levied on Deloitte for its audit of software firm Autonomy prior to Autonomy's acquisition by HP in 2011. A UK court found that the audit contained "serious and serial failures" before levying the record fine. This follows an...

Strike action shuts down Mustek deliveries, collections

Deliveries and collections have been halted at Mustek's Midrand premises as strike action and picketing continues today (17 September). The strike, by members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), began peacefully yesterday but escalated when vehicles leaving or...

AI, solar power drive new Mayflower journey

The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS), an AI and solar powered marine research vessel which will traverse oceans gathering vital environmental data, has been launched. Following two years of design, construction and training of its AI models, the new fully-autonomous...

Lockdown drives huge rise in e-commerce app usage

There has been a 93% growth in in-app purchases between April and May 2020 in South Africa, following the lockdown at the end of March, which drove consumers from brick and mortar to online stores. This is compared to a 43% increase between September and November...

Abandoned accounts pose security risk

More than half of Internet users create accounts only to forget them, according to new research by NordPass. A massive 64% of those surveyed don't remember all the accounts they've created. What's more, 52% of users have accounts they cannot access because they have...

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