by Dianne Bayley | Oct 22, 2019 | Innovation
Smart home adoption is on the rise globally, and while affordability and infrastructure has prevented rapid uptake in South Africa, this is beginning to change. As products that are more inexpensive enter the market and connectivity improves, smart home adoption is...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 15, 2019 | Security and Legal
2017 was a turning point for the global manufacturing industry, which saw major ransomware attacks – Wannacry and NotPetya – cause significant interruptions to the operations of several large European and US multinational manufacturing enterprises. What makes industry...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 4, 2019 | Security and Legal
The ransomware attack on Johannesburg power utility City Power earlier this year shows how easy it is for organisations to fall victim to cybercriminals, who often carry out attacks that are financially motivated, writes Lukas van der Merwe, Specialist Sales...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
The rise in cybercrime is unprecedented, writes Ian Jansen van Rensburg, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware. Over one-third of South African IT decision-makers (35%) are on high alert and are expecting cyber-attacks on their businesses within days. Moreover, besides...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 10, 2019 | Security and Legal
The conventional wisdom with malware is that you can kill it once and for all by wiping a system and starting from scratch. However, a particularly clever piece of surveillance software with Russian ties appears much more resistant. Even replacing drives won’t kill...
