BYOD security lags in SA

South African employees are using their own devices at work – but in many cases their employers haven’t yet implemented security measures. With the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast estimating that there will be 98-million...

Polio mutation breaches vaccine protection

Thanks to effective vaccination, polio is considered nearly eradicated. Each year, only a few hundred people are stricken worldwide. However, scientists of the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from Gabon, are reporting alarming findings: a mutated virus...

3D printing not ready for mainstream uptake

3D printing is evolving rapidly, although many technologies are still five to 10 years away from mainstream adoption. Consumer adoption will be outpaced by business and medical applications that have more compelling use cases in the short term, according to Gartner....

Hacking into the average living room …

Kaspersky Lab security analyst David Jacoby conducted a research experiment in his own living room to find out how safe his home is from a cyber security point of view. He inspected home entertainment devices such as network-attached storages (NAS), smart TVs, router,...

$8bn market for software-defined networking

Software-defined networking (SDN) continues to gain ground within the broader enterprise and cloud service provider markets for data centre networking. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide SDN market for the enterprise...