Patch recommended for Windows vulnerability
With the revelation of a nearly two-decade old flaw in Microsoft Windows Secure Channel (SChannel), Trend Micro is recommending that Windows users immediately patch their systems to avoid being compromised. Windows SChannel is Microsoft’s delivery platform to securely...What South Africans buy on mobile
Moms have been crowned “the queens of mobile shopping”, with the top five items sold this month on takealot.com being baby products. Online retailer takealot.com has revealed that nappies topped the mobile shopping list by far, with Pampers taking first...Tracking down the Stuxnet victims
More than four years have passed since the discovery of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous malicious programs, the Stuxnet worm, but many mysteries still dog the story. One major question is: what were the exact goals of the whole Stuxnet operation? Now,...4,9bn connected things by 2015
Gartner forecasts that 4,9-billion connected things will be in use in 2015, up 30% from 2014, and will reach 25-billion by 2020. The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a powerful force for business transformation, and its disruptive impact will be felt across all...Rosetta probe touches down
ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet – the first time in history that such a feat has been achieved. After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the...