Untrusted certificates on the rise

The number of untrusted certificates used to sign malicious software doubled in the last year. According to Kaspersky Lab, by the end of 2014 the company’s antivirus database included more than 6 000 of these certificates. Considering the growing amount of threats...

DiData goes on data centre hiring spree

Dimension Data is set to hire an additional 300 data centre experts over the next 18 months as it seeks to quadruple its data centre business from $1-billion to $4-billion by 2018. In addition, the company intends to make data centre-focused acquisitions to build out...

Neotel achieves MEF certification

Neotel has become the first service provider in Africa to receive Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification. MEF is an international standardisation body that aims to accelerate the worldwide adoption of carrier-class Ethernet networks and...

NAPAfrica hits 20Gbps traffic

NAPAfrica recently announced that it has achieved its goal of becoming one of Africa’s largest Internet exchanges, and is reaching a throughput of 20Gbps with more than 180 members across its locations in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Established in 2012,...

Seed Academy offers help for start-ups

Seed Academy has opened in Cape Town, and is offering entrepreneurial training in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. There is more than R2,4-million of sponsored training available for early stage technology and women entrepreneurs. Applications are open with courses...

Mobile to drive e-commerce growth

Rampant interest in mobile payments is expected by 2015, along with a significant increase in mobile commerce. Due to this, Gartner, predicts that by 2017, US customers’ mobile engagement behaviour will drive mobile commerce revenue in the US to 50% of US...