Every organisation, regardless of size and vertical, is susceptible to phishing and social engineering without computer-based training. This is among the findings of a new Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report to measure an organisation's phish-prone percentage...

Over the last five years, digital financial services like crowdinvesting and crowdfunding became an appealing alternative for thousands of investors and start-ups, connecting borrowers directly to lenders through online platforms and offering different models of...

Well over a tenth of South Africans who apply for jobs have a criminal record - and a fair proportion of them have more than one. This is one of the findings from the Annual Screening Report Findings for 2015 from EMPS, South Africa's oldest background screening...

MTN and Vodacom have declared war on consumer interests, according to Cell C CEO Jose dos Santos, who writes the following: "The infamous duopoly wants to limit how we use Internet services like WhatsApp - and it has nothing to do with fairness, competition or the...

International accounting software vendors will soon feel the effect of the plummeting rand as local businesses consider cheaper options. Software prices have already increased by 40% and will continue to rise as the rand weakens, according to Palladium Business...

Fujitsu Laboratories is in the news again, this time announcing a development in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Toho University of authentication technology for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that reduces the time needed for authentication in the...

More than one-third (36%) of global organisations still lack confidence in their ability to detect sophisticated cyber-attacks, according to the annual EY's Global Information Security Survey 2015, "Creating trust in the digital world". The survey of 1 755...

NASA astronauts are growing zinnias on the International Space Station (ISS). On 16 January, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly shared photographs of a blooming zinnia flower in the Veggie plant growth system aboard the ISS. Kelly wrote: "Yes, there are other life...

Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has announced a new three-part initiative to ensure that Microsoft's cloud computing resources serve the public good. As part of this initiative the recently formed Microsoft Philanthropies will donate $1-billion of Microsoft Cloud...

MTN expects the profit for its Nigerian operations to be about Naira 190-billion - but can't confirm that as its year-end results are still subject to finalisation and audit sign-off. The company was reacting to an article carried earlier this week in a Nigerian...