AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

AI automation is having an impact on entry-level hiring

Nearly a quarter (22%) of CHROs report that at least one business leader in their organisation has stopped hiring for entry-level roles due to AI automation, according to Gartner. The 4Q25 Gartner survey of 110 heads of HR also found that 95% of organisations have...

Africa’s young people want jobs, clean government

Africa’s young people are more optimistic about the future of their countries, economies and the continent than at any point since the pandemic - but they are demanding jobs, cleaner government, safer communities, a stronger political voice and a model of democracy...

Even without data centres, Africa faces water bankruptcy

A new United Nations (UN) report says the world has moved past a water crisis into water bankruptcy – and Africa’s utility numbers already show what that looks like.

Hackers continue to evolve attacks

Hackers are diversifying attack methods, including a surge in QR code phishing campaigns, according to the latest quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report. By isolating threats on PCs that have evaded detection tools, HP Wolf Security has specific insight...

APT campaign targets organisations in Russo-Ukrainian conflict area

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers discovered an ongoing advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign targeting organisations located in the area affected by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Dubbed CommonMagic, this espionage campaign has been active...

Cyber readiness stalls as attacks reach new intensity

There has been a sharp increase in the number and cost of cyber-attack, with more than three out of five firms (61%) reporting one or more attacks in the past year. But the proportion of companies achieving top scores for their cyber security readiness is marginally...

Training makes legal departments more cost-effective

Cost-effective legal departments allocate almost twice as much of their in-house budget to training than higher-cost peers, according to Gartner. The most cost-effective legal departments commit to a strategy of continuous improvement of their in-house capabilities,...

Is SA food insecure or are we wasting too much?

South Africans are not heeding the call to save food. According to a new report, "2017 Food Loss and Waste: Facts and Futures" from the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA), a third of all food in the country is not eaten but wasted. Quantified, this...

Wits spearheads African AI research initiative

The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in partnership with the Cirrus Initiative, has announced plans for a new artificial intelligence (AI) research operation in Africa. Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, deputy vice-chancellor:...

International tourism up in 2019

International tourist arrivals grew 4% from January to June 2019, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer published ahead of the 23rd World Tourism Organization General Assembly. Growth was led by the Middle East...

Luno shows sterling growth

South African cryptocurrency exchange Luno now has 3-million customers (wallets) spanning 40 countries. Marius Reitz, Luno's GM: Africa, says, that despite bitcoin's volatility, cryptocurrency trades continue to rise. "In the last month, more than R80-million worth of...

Trickle-down effect drives sophisticated cyber-threats

By Kathy Gibson - The cyber-threat industry is a massive - and profitable - one and it's getting more sophisticated thanks to a trickle-down effect of advanced nation state tools being made available to serious organised crime groups, cyber-terrorists and others. They...

AI increases skills gap, time to retrain staff

In the next three years, as many as 120-million workers in the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation. This is among the findings from a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study, which...

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