Anonymous: SA attacks claimed

A recent hack on the SABC news site is being touted as part of the opening salvo in an Anonymous attack on South African sites known as Operation South Africa (#OpSAfrica).  Although it’s unclear whether the operation is being carried out by Anonymous or a local...

8m PCs freed in botnet takedown

Microsoft and Symantec have brought down a global cybercrime operation, the Bamital botnet, but shutting down the servers at the heart of the botnet. PCs infected by the malware that linked them to the botnet were temporarily unable to search the Web, and the software...

CTI offers free tablets for students

CTI Education Group will become the first higher education institution in South Africa to offer its students tablet computers loaded with prescribed textbooks, at no extra cost. More than 2 000 who will start their degree studies at CTI in January will receive the new...

MTN lights national fibre route

MTN has lit the fibre optic network from Germiston to Durban. The National Long Distance (NLD) consortium – consisting of MTN, Vodacom, Neotel and SANRAL (South African National Road Agency Limited) – completed the trenching of almost 700km of fibre optic...