South African research that seeks to mitigate plastic pollution - reducing the threat it poses to plants, animals, and the environment - will be showcased at the 2023 International Festival of Engineering Science and Technology in Tunisia (I-FEST2) later this month....

Regardless of their original size, applications grow in size by about 40% year on year, increasing their exposure to security threats. This is one of the findings from the annual Veracode 2023 State of Software Security report, which aims to assist businesses to meet...

There has been a surge in fileless attacks designed to disguise malicious activity. Trend Micro's roundup report for the first half of 2019 reveals that detections of this threat alone were up 265% compared to the first half of 2018. The findings in 2019 so far...

The number of phishing attacks targeting users of Mac computers, iOS-based mobile devices, and the associated web services ecosystem to lure them into fraudulent schemes has reached 1,6-million in the first half of 2019 (H1-19) - demonstrating that the growing number...

The business impact of blockchain will be transformational across most industries within five to 10 years, according to the 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle for Blockchain Business. "Even though they are still uncertain of the impact blockchain will have on their businesses,...

The global production volume of notebook PCs by the ODM/EMS industry increased 11,4% year over year to 39,7-million units in the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19). According to the latest results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Notebook ODM QView,...

ITU, in partnership with Cisco, has launched the Digital Transformation Centres Initiative to equip people with the skills needed to effectively participate in today's digital society and economy. Through the initiative, launched at ITU Telecom World, ITU and Cisco...

The total security appliance market experienced double-digit unit shipment and revenue growth in the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, worldwide revenue increased 10,4%...

Treasury's economic policy paper has failed to spark enthusiasm, write Lullu Krugel, PwC Strategy & Chief Economist for Africa, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC Strategy & Economist. The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) reported on September 11 that South...

IBM today announced IBM z15, a new enterprise platform delivering the ability to manage the privacy of customer data across hybrid multicloud environments. With z15, clients can manage who gets access to data via policy-based controls, with an industry-first...