Kaspersky found half a million malicious files every day in 2025
Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered an average of 500 000 malicious files per day in 2025, marking a 7% increase compared to the previous year. Certain types of threats saw growth globally – there was a 59% surge in password stealer detections, a 51% growth in...
Online deals define Black Friday, Cyber Monday 2025
South Africans headed online to take advantage of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday specials. PayInc’s tracking1 reported increased activity across both days. “The healthy sales successfully handled by our card rails, underscores the continued appeal of online...
Nation-state actors exploit SharePoint vulnerability
High-profile local and global sites alike have fallen victim to a newly-uncovered vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint. In South Africa, National Treasury is among the customers affected, while international users like the US nuclear weapons agency have also been...
AI drives major infrastructure shift for SA enterprises
As AI assistants, agents, and data-driven workloads reshape how work gets done, they’re creating faster, more dynamic, more latency-sensitive and more complex network traffic in South Africa. This is the headline finding from a Cisco study into the architectural...
Visa opens first African data centre in Joburg
Visa has opened a new data centre in Johannesburg, the company’s first in Africa, as part of three-year R1-billion investment into South Africa. The data centre, which is already operational, ensures that local transactions are processed securely, seamlessly and...
Trump administration make AI a priority
US president Donald Trump has signed three new executive orders aimed at strenthening the US’s dominance in the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. The executive orders come hours after the government released a National AI Action Plan that details strategies to...
Meat prices push grocery bills up
Meat was the biggest driver of food inflation after surging to a 25-month high of 6,6% year-on-year and 2,2% month-on-month in June 2025. This is according to Paul Makube, senior agricultural economist at FNB Commercial. The foot and-mouth (FMD) disease outbreak...
New backdoor targets MS Exchange servers
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has uncovered a new backdoor based on open-source tools, dubbed GhostContainer. The previously unknown highly customised malware was discovered during an incident response (IR) case, targeting Exchange...
Leadership shake-up at Rain
Brandon Leigh, founder and CEO of rain, has stepped away from his executive position and moved into a strategic advisory role on the board. Conrad Leigh, previously the chief operating officer, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. Brandon Leigh will take on...
New blood test could make it easier to spot TB in children
In an important breakthrough that could transform how childhood tuberculosis (TB) is diagnosed, scientists have identified a small set of blood proteins that accurately signal TB disease in children, even in the absence of reliable sputum samples. Published in Nature...
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NEC XON, MTN launch 400G optical transponder
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CCM platforms can reshape customer experiences for banks and insurers
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AI revolution will also be a trust revolution
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Don’t be tempted by new trends too soon
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ENVIRONMENT:A Community Upliftment Programme based in Joburg seeks a strategic-thinking Data Analyst who will enhance its internal analytical capacity, support strategic insights, and ensure high-quality data governance and use across the organisation and network. You...
Intermediate BI Developer
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Business Analyst at Parvana Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
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Java Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Pretoria
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Project Manager (Construction) at Parvana Recruitment
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