Among infrastructure as a service (IaaS) users, 56% experienced an increase in the volume of attacks on their organisation when compared to the previous year, and 67% were hit by ransomware. In addition, 59% experienced an increase in complexity of attacks. These are...

Kaspersky has contributed to Interpol's Africa Cyber Surge Operation (ACSO) by sharing data, comprising of indicators of compromise (IoCs) on various cyberthreats and types of cybercriminal activity targeting African countries. This evidence provided the grounds for a...

Apple has blocked Google from running its internally-built iOS apps. Google has been running a voluntary programme offering an incentive to users who allow Google to monitor their activities through an installed app. It would appear that the block is in response to a...

Intel has named Robert (Bob) Swan as CEO. Swan, 58, who has been serving as Intel's interim CEO for seven months and as chief financial officer since 2016, is the seventh CEO in Intel's 50-year history. Swan has also been elected to Intel's board of directors. Todd...

Through 2022, growth in enterprise IT spending for cloud-based offerings will be faster than growth in traditional (non-cloud) IT offerings, making cloud computing one of the most disruptive forces in IT markets since the early days of the digital age. When...

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has released its first ever Technology Trends 2019 Artificial Intelligence report, naming IBM as the global leader in AI patent applications. The report identifies IBM as having the largest portfolio of AI patent...

The UK is due to leave the EU at the end of March, and television channels targeting EU countries will require new licenses. Of the 1 039 cable and satellite TV channels licensed by UK-regulator Ofcom, 700 target other countries. According to business information...

A shared passion for improving healthcare in developing countries has led biomedical engineers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Osmania University, India to develop a tool for clinicians to administer medication to their patients remotely using mobile...

According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 375,4-million units during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), down 4,9% year over year and the fifth consecutive...

Intel has announced availability of the Intel Xeon W-3175X processor, an unlocked 28-core workstation processor built for select, highly-threaded and computing-intensive applications such as architectural and industrial design and professional content creation. With...