Cisco's strategic acquisition of cybersecurity company Splunk not only propels the company deeper into AI-enabled data-driven security and observability but also injects an impressive $4-billion into its annualised recurring revenues. However, the challenge ahead lies...

News reports that the Minister of Public Enterprises has rejected the name put forward by the Eskom board to replace André de Ruyter as CEO once again raising the complex governance issues relating to the appointment of senior management at state-owned enterprises...

Sales of monitors through distributors in Western Europe (WE) grew +14% year-on-year in the part of the second quarter of 2020 up to the first three weeks of June, according to the latest data published by IT market intelligence company Context. "Strong consumer...

Brazilian cybercriminals, long regarded as some of the most creative malware creators, have begun to take their original malicious programs outside the country. According to Kaspersky researchers, four advanced banking families - Guildma, Javali, Melcoz and...

South Africa's government-imposed Covid-19 lockdown was supposedly instituted to buy the government time to manage the spread of the virus, and to allow the public healthcare sector to prepare its own facilities adequately for an increase in Covid-19 cases. By Chris...

Melinda Gates has launched a paper exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic has exploited pre-existing inequalities and drastically impacted women's lives and livelihoods. In the paper, titled "The Pandemic's Toll on Women and Girls," Gates makes the case that to recover...

Hardware security specialists with cyber security provider F-Secure have published a report detailing their investigation into a pair of counterfeit network switches. The investigation, which concluded that the counterfeits were designed to bypass processes that...

Researchers at the University of Regensburg in Germany are extending their exploration of the origins of the universe boosted by a new Fujitsu supercomputer, the PrimeHPC FX700 underpinned by the new Arm-based Fujitsu A64FX processor. The university's QPace4 (QCD...

Despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, South Africa's small and medium businesses (SMBs) are optimistic - but there is a long-term jobs crisis looming. These are among the findings from Facebook's Global State of Small Business Report,...