Acer wins 2014 ICON Brand Award

Acer has been awarded the Target Group Index (TGI) 2014/2015 Icon Brands Award in the “Personal Computers and Laptops” category. TGI Icon Brands started in 2009 and the survey identifies brands that are popular among South African consumers through purchases made over...

Lendico SA wins InfoSeal accreditation

The online loans marketplace Lendico has been accredited with an Orange Seal as part of the InfoSeal Website Compliance Programme (IWCP), demonstrating that it complies with privacy and information standards. Lendico is a transparent online marketplace that directly...

Unpacking how Turla infects its victims

Turla, also known as Snake or Uroburos, is one of the most sophisticated ongoing cyber-espionage campaigns.However, when the first research on Turla/Snake/Uroburos was published, it didn’t answer one major question: how do victims get infected? Now the latest...

Global IT market looking up

The recent volatility in the IT spending market will gradually give way to a more positive outlook in the second half of 2014. This is according to the newly published International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book. With the US and other mature economies...

Build and maintain a proactive workforce

Building a proactive workforce is every manager’s dream as it can boost a company’s performance, but a new study has found if job satisfaction is low those “agents of change” quickly lose their can-do attitude. Researchers followed 75 workers for two...

Business allies with IT as BYOID takes off

New research shows that both the lines of business and IT departments see value in BYOID initiatives, where social networking or digital IDs are used for application login. The groups also agree that more security is needed to increase BYOID adoption. The report, The...