Security specialist Check Point has warned the South African healthcare sector that it urgently needs to increase its cybersecurity defences. Recent data from the company reported that the industry - which is notoriously under resourced in all areas - has experienced...

The activity of online scammers in Telegram has significantly increased as they take advantage of the convenient functionalities of the messenger, according to Kaspersky experts. Phishers are skillfully utilising the messenger’s capabilities to provide various...

Threats will continue to grow in sophistication and become more targeted, diversifying under the influence of external factors, such as development and propagation of machine learning, technologies for deepfakes development, or tensions around trade routes between...

Impersonation attacks are on this rise - accounting for 26% of total detections. These attacks now include voice phishing or "vishing," an advanced attack observed in this quarter, where threat actors use social engineering to gain access to personal and financial...

Intel has announced the first corporate members - Accenture, Airbus, GE and Hitachi - to join the fast-growing Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC). The INRC has tripled in size over the past year and now has more than 75 organisations, spanning leading...

Cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro has released its 2020 predictions report which states that organisations will face a growing risk from their cloud and the supply chain. The growing popularity of cloud and DevOps environments drive business agility while exposing...

The origin of a deadly wheat pathogen which threatens a vital global food source has been identified by an international team of academic researchers including two professors from the University of the Free State in South Africa. First identified in Africa two decades...

Markets across Africa are evolving, possibly more rapidly than ever before in history, and this is largely due to continuous advances in and the growing uptake of digital technology. In commemorating Africa Industrialisation Day and the 2019 theme of "Inclusive and...

Seed Academy has unveiled its latest report on the state of entrepreneurship in South Africa after surveying more than 1000 entrepreneurs across the country. This year marks Seed Academy's fifth year of engagement with local entrepreneurs, with the latest findings...

Christine was recently appointed chief data officer (CDO) in a retail organisation in the UK to develop a data-driven strategy. Her predecessor was mainly focused on supplying data to the business, but Christine knows the real goal is to drive business value from the...