Throughout 2022 and the first quarter of 2023, 14% of installs of potentially unwanted mobile financial apps on Android phones were made by users in the Middle East, Turkiye, Africa (META) region. META ranks third among the world regions behind APAC and LATAM in terms...

The global market for virtual- and software-as-a-service(SaaS)-based network security solutions achieved its 20th consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth in 1Q 2023. According to a report from Dell'Oro Group, the pace of year-over-year (Y/Y) revenue growth...

Kathy Gibson reports on the Dell Technologies Harness your Digital Future Virtual Summit - The decisions you take in times of crisis, like the current pandemic, will determine whether your organisation will be successful in the future or not. Santhosh Rao, senior...

With most of the world still in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, research group IHS Markit has turned its attention to the possible recovery path. Looking past the horrific second-quarter drop in real GDP, and a deeper recession in 2020 than in 2008–09, the company...

A recent Gartner survey of more than 900 audit and risk leaders has revealed that most of their current focus is on assessing the impact of coronavirus on organisational operations and controls, as well as revising and executing the company audit plan. Just 4% of...

In 2019, 773 943 users of Kaspersky solutions globally were attacked by banking Trojans – with a third of them (35,1%) in the corporate sector. African countries were affected too: almost every hundredth user (varying from 0,9% to 1%) in South Africa, Ethiopia,...

South Africa’s Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) advises mobile users that they should expect to receive educational SMS (short message service) text messages to do with the current Covid-19 emergency. “Aside from expecting these messages...

Researchers at Check Point see a rising trend in a new ransomware tactic: “double extortion”. This tactic sees threat actors add an additional stage to a ransomware attack: prior to encrypting a victim’s database, hackers will extract large quantities of sensitive...

IDC is forecasting that the European smartphone market will likely fall in value by more than a quarter this year in the aftermath of widespread national lockdowns to combat the spread of coronavirus. Under IDC's current forecast, in a worst-case scenario the value...

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IDC (International Data Corporation) Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide had forecast European artificial intelligence (AI) spending of $10-billion for 2020, and a healthy growth at a 33% CAGR throughout 2023. With the...