Ampath confirms hack, but disputes theft of 80m patient records

Ampath, one of the country’s biggest pathology labs, has confirmed that it has been the victim of a cyberattack, but has issued a statement clarifying the claim by hackers that “80-million patient records” have been stolen. The company says it has contained the...

How will your career withstand the impact of AI?

New research from The TEFL Academy’s South African Career Resilience Report 2026 reveals that 57% of local respondents have questioned whether their chosen career or qualification will still be valuable because of artificial intelligence - while 84% say AI has already...

Cyber resilience the foundation for Africa’s next phase of digital growth

Building strong cyber resilience will be the key to sustaining the current remarkable growth of Africa’s digital economy, according to a new white paper from Mastercard. The report – Africa’s Digital Defence Race - highlights that between 2016 and 2025, mobile money...

Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...

GenAI-powered skills development to drive $1trn in productivity gains

In a business landscape where productivity and revenue growth stand at the forefront of organisational priorities, the role of generative AI (GenAI) is taking centre stage. International Data Corporation (IDC) foresees a major paradigm shift taking place, with 35% of...

GenAI startups raise record sums

Startup funding has been subdued in 2023 with $224-billion in total venture capital funding (as of 8 December 2023) falling 65% since 2021 when startups raised a record $655-billion. But the story is very different for Generative AI (GenAI) startups, which have raised...

Some good news on the tech horizon

In 2020, the future of technology arrived faster than anyone could have predicted. So for 2021, trends that might have been projected for 2024 are accelerating to the near horizon. As the pandemic revealed, being prepared for the unexpected is critical. That begins...

As Covid-19 peaks, healthcare comes under cyber-attack

At the end of October 2020, Check Point reported that hospitals and healthcare organisations had been targeted by a rising wave of ransomware attacks, with the majority of attacks using the infamous Ryuk ransomware. This followed a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued...

SA users confident they’ve avoided Sunburst, SuperNova hacks

South African users of the software at the centre of a supply chain hack on US government departments appear to be unaffected by the issue, and most have already applied the fixes that will prevent any potential problems. That's the word from Glenn Lazarus, CEO of...

Software updates cut the cost of data breaches

Enterprises in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region with outdated technology can lose 16% more money when they suffer a data breach compared to those who update everything in a timely manner. According to a recent Kaspersky report "How businesses can...

People find new ways to adapt in Covid times

2020 has been a year no one saw coming. Covid-19 has wrought economic, political and emotional chaos, testing the limits of individuals, families, healthcare systems and whole sectors of societies. Yet, as the ninth annual Looking Further with Ford Trends Report*...

Tech stocks the winners in otherwise bleak 2020

Despite the unprecedented challenges that rocked the year 2020, the S&P 500 closed with an 18,4% gain on a total return basis. According to the research data analyzed and published by Comprar Acciones. Following a 12,5% decline in March 2020, the index recovered...

And the top malware threat in December was …

The Emotet trojan has returned to first place in Check Point Research's latest Global Three Index for December 2020, impacting 7% of organisations globall. This follows a spam campaign which targeted more than 100 000 users per day during the holiday season. In...

How events in the Capitol affect the US economy

Democrats have completed a sweep of Congress following the double victory in the state of Georgia's run-off election. Keith Wade, Schroders' chief economist, discusses what this means for the US economy in the near-term. The disturbing scenes of protestors storming...

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