During the course of last year, Kaspersky detected and blocked 221 695 cyberattacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices in South Africa; 45 562 attacks in Kenya; and 30 089 in Nigeria. All these attacks were blocked on Kaspersky honeypots - decoy devices used to...

The Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) smart home devices market had a mixed performance in the last quarter of 2022 as end users adjusted their spending - and while shipments were up 15,9% YoY, the market was down 3,4% on Q3 2022. That's according to the latest...

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - Humans harbour a deep-seated fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will negatively impact our lives - to the extent that some people believe it will result in our extinction. Alex Rubsaam, faculty member in...

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - A defining feature of humanity is that we are swimming in data. But information consumes the resource of our attention, says Rachel Sibley, from the augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) faculty at Singularity...

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - Before the singularity (the point where machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence) can happen, we need to all connect. Ramez Naam, Singularity U chair for energy and environment, calls this the "syncularity"....

Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Summit in Kyalami - An exponential mindset is the key to real and meaningful change and innovation. Laila Pawlak, head of Singularity University Nordic, explains that, in a world of accelerating change, we need to create extraordinary...

Kaspersky honeypots - networks of virtual copies of various internet connected devices and applications - have detected 105-million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276 000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. This figure is around nine times...

Seacom has partnered with Vodacom Business Africa to initiate the next chapter of both companies' African network connectivity ventures. Since the launch of its business division, Seacom has substantially grown its customer and partnership base. The latest partnership...

In response to the release of the CCMA's report for the year by director Cameron Morajane, trade union body Solidarity says that the large-scale job losses in South Africa cannot be mainly attributed to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Morajane says there were...

Old Mutual has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will migrate its digital customer platforms, core insurance applications and product administration systems to the cloud. The company will migrate over 1 000 applications to AWS, shutting down its data...