With sustained stress, workers turn to escapist behaviours

There has been a steady year‑on‑year rise in addictive behaviours among South African employees, reflecting how prolonged stress is reshaping the ways people cope, escape and self‑manage emotional pressure. Drawn from a five‑year analysis of Lyra Southern Africa’s...

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...

SA’s financial sector suffers highest losses from data breaches

IBM Security has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, showing the average data breach cost for South African organizations reached R49,45-million in 2023 - an all-time high for the report. This represents an 8% increase over the last three years and a 73%...

Increased chip demand will fuel steady OSAT growth

A surge in global demand for applications such as AI, high-performance computing (HPC), 5G, automotive, and Internet of Things (IoT) has fueled semiconductor supply chain expansion, according to IDC's upcoming Semiconductor Manufacturing Services: 2022 Worldwide OSAT...

Rack Centre expands Lagos capacity

Rack Centre, the leading carrier neutral data centre operator in West Africa, has announced an expansion programme that will increase capacity to a total net lettable white space of 6 000 square metres and allow for 13MW of IT power capacity in its Lagos campus. This...

How cybercrooks cash out after large-scale heists

SWIFT and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence has published "Follow the Money", a new report that describes the complex web of money mules, front companies and cryptocurrencies that criminals use to siphon funds from the financial system after a cyberattack. The report...

Comments set to close for critical skills list

A broad cross-section of ICT and networking skills are among those in the provision Occupations in High Demand (OIHD) list issued by the Department of Higher Education and Training. The draft list was gazetted on 17 August, and comments close on 7 September. The list...

Slight decline in enterprise WLAN market

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments rose 7,1% year over year in the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20), according to results published in the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker. The enterprise segment...

Half of businesses don’t have a marketing operations leader

Only 49% of marketing organisations report they have a dedicated marketing operations leader, according to a recent survey by Gartner. Those organisations with a marketing operations leader are more effective and better utilise their investments - including marketing...

SA students impress at Africa Science Buskers Festival

South African learners impressed in the virtual 2020 Africa Science Buskers Festival, bagging gold, silver and bronze medals along with various cash prizes. The Africa Science Buskers Festival is an annual science fair, which traditionally brings together more than...

Tax audit process improves, but service delivery lagging – PwC

South Africa's tax administration system has undergone significant change in the past two years with a number of leadership, structural and policy changes. More recently, the government introduced several economic measures - including tax measures - in order to...

UCT retains top spot in Africa in THE rankings

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has retained its spot as the continent's top university, tying at 155th among more than 1 500 institutions in the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The THE World University Rankings, published once a year,...

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