Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...

Trickbot infects thousands of machines at top companies

Check Point Research (CPR) has discovered new and sophisticated details of the implementation of Trickbot. A well-known banking Trojan, Trickbot steals and compromises the data of its victims, targeting high-profile victims. CPR has counted over 140 000 machines...

Mustek expects earnings to be higher

Mustek has issued a trading statement in regard to its earnings for the six months ended 31 December 2021. Shareholders are informed that, for that period, the headline earnings per share (HEPS) is expected to be between 12% and 22% higher than the previous...

The distress of losing data is real …

While people claim that they understand the value of their data, in reality they don’t appreciate its importance until it is lost. People even break out in a cold sweat when they think they have lost data that they previously deemed “trivial”. These findings, which...

Business in Africa is still looking good

Africa’s CEOs are confident that the outlook for business on the continent remains positive notwithstanding the unpredictable economic and socio-political climate. PwC’s Africa Business Agenda report shows that 85% of African CEOs (Global: 85%) are confident in their...

Frictionless authentication with SecuredTouch

SecuredTouch behavioural biometric technology is now a primary authentication option in IBM’s MobileFirst Foundation.  IBM MobileFirst Foundation provides simple, scalable, time-tested enterprise mobile middleware, deployable on premises or on the cloud. SecuredTouch...

Digital transformation headlines at Dell EMC World

Mark Davison reports from Dell EMC World, Las Vegas – Digital transformation and the impact it will have on organisations’ IT, workforces and the way they view security has been the dominant theme at this year’s Dell EMC World in Las Vegas. Speaker after speaker has...

Connectivity key to SME success

SMEs are learning from each other as they share ideas in a mobilised economy. These are some of the findings from the Future of Business Survey, and ongoing collaboration between Facebook, the OECD, and the World Bank. So far, almost 200 000 SMEs in 40 countries have...

Samsung’s Gear to lead smartphone VR

Competition in the high-end smartphone virtual reality (VR) market is heating up in 2017 with Google’s Daydream platform emerging to offer an alternative to the established market leader, Samsung’s Gear VR. According to the latest forecasts from business information...

Clicks and bricks to tempt SA shoppers

Thinking in terms of bricks versus clicks is outdated - bricks-and-clicks is the current and future retail reality; especially in emerging markets, including South Africa. This is the word from Nielsen’s new global research “What’s in-store for online grocery shopping...

Spam botnet mailings post a decline

The world's largest spam botnet, Necurs, demonstrated a relative decline in its fraudulent mailshot traffic during the first quarter of 2017. According to Kaspersky Lab’s “Spam and phishing in Q1 2017” report, in December 2016, Kaspersky Lab’s spam traps detected over...

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