Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi plans to enlist technology to help in the fight against crime in the province. “Our province is a home of heartless and merciless criminals,” he said in yesterday’s State of the Province Address. “They do as they wish. “So the issue of...

As the energy crisis worsens, Gauteng is planning initiatives to help shield businesses, individuals and government from the worst effects. “We have established an energy crisis response team that engages with the National Energy Committee and is working with local...

Check Point Research and Cyberint have identified a chain of vulnerabilities in the Origin gaming client developed by Electronic Arts (EA). Once exploited, the vulnerabilities would have led to player account takeover and identity theft. EA is the world's second...

Kathy Gibson is at Dell Technologies Forum in Sandton - Businesses today are struggling to balance a need to increase profitability while rolling out new customer experiences and innovative services to maximise competitive advantage. IT has to enable this and, to do...

Kathy Gibson is at Dell Technologies Forum in Sandton - Companies need to differentiate their digital experience through software development. "When it comes to experiences, understand you can't buy them off the shelf: you have to create them with software," says Greg...

Kathy Gibson is at Dell Technologies Forum in Sandton - Technology should be there to help people work. "So we think the people using software should be treated like first-class citizens," says Terry Elkington, VMware sales engineer. "It is very frustrating for...

Kathy Gibson is at Dell Technologies Forum in Sandton - The changing needs of workloads are driving cloud strategies. Companies need to modernise their existing workloads, which means optimising them to use modern infrastructures, says Ian Flanagan, senior systems...

Kathy Gibson is at Dell Technologies Forum in Sandton - A number of hyperscale cloud providers have opened data centres in South Africa, and the journey to the cloud is on. That is the word from Doug Woolley, GM: South Africa at Dell EMC, announcing that Microsoft and...

Combined gross card fraud losses on South African issued cards saw an 18% increase from 2017 to 2018, totalling R873 394 351, with credit card fraud increasing by 18,4% and debit card fraud increasing by 17,5%. This is according to the South African Banking Risk...

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of growing demand for video games by distributing malware through fake copies of the most popular ones, says Kaspersky. More than 930 000 users were hit by such attacks in the 12 months from early June 2018 to early June 2019. Over...