The Emotet botnet has been classified by Europol as “the most dangerous malware in the world” and showed worldwide growth of over 200% in March 2022, according to Kaspersky telemetry. This growth indicates that the threat actors behind the botnet have been taking...

Controversial entrepreneur Elon Musk has made an offer to buy all of Twitter’s shares. The “best and final offer” of $54.20 is for 100% of the company, which Musk plans to privatise and transform. As a 9,2% shareholder – which he disclosed earlier this month - Musk...

BT has announced details of its new Business Platform-as-a-Service, which it believes is the first of its kind to be widely available. The platform, called BT Personalised Compute Management System (PCMS), is designed to help companies speed up time-to-market for new...

A common belief is that email is immutable once delivered, like a physical letter. But a new exploit turns that assumption on its head, undermining the security and non-repudiation of email; even for those that use SMIME or PGP for signing. Mimecast has revealed the...

The first few steps were taken in a campaign to elevate awareness of mental illness today. The "Crazy for Walking" campaign has a group of walkers walking a crazy distance of 1 500km from Pretoria to Cape Town in a period of just over five weeks, planning to arrive in...

The National Research Foundation (NRF) has approved the funding of R35-million for a Nuclear Spectrometer. GAMKA, which stands for GAMma-ray spectrometer for Knowledge in Africa as well as from the Khoisan word for "lion", will bolster the country's ability to perform...

Kathy Gibson at Fujitsu World Tour, Bryanston -- As the world moves to digitalisation, a new approach to data management is needed. A good example of these changing needs is data backup and recovery, where customers make big investments but don't always see the value....

Kathy Gibson at Fujitsu World Tour, Bryanston -- Simplification is the goal that companies want from their cloud strategy -- but this is not always that easy to achieve. This means they really shouldn't be setting out to drive a single cloud strategy, says Marcus...

Kathy Gibson at Fujitsu World Tour, Bryanston -- The software-defined data centre (SDDC) has been the CIO's goal for a couple of years now - and now the elements are all in place to make it a reality. When it comes to the SDDC, integrated systems are key, says Craig...

Kathy Gibson at Fujitsu World Tour, Bryanston -- Fujitsu made a decision to increase the focus on its South African operation just two years ago, and the investment it made then is showing results. Juan Porcar, vice-president and head of Eastern Europe, Russia &...