Technology News
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 cable in...
Northern phase of public network done
Building of the installation sites for the “northern ring” of state-owned Broadband Infraco’s new national network has been completed by Plessey. Broadband Infraco was founded with the purpose of improving market efficiency in the long distance connectivity segment by...
Cybercrooks have gamers in their sights
There were about 7 000 attempts to infect gamers around the world in 2012, according to data from Kaspersky Labs. These attacks are launched in an attempt to gain access to personal user data, such as passwords to online games and online banking systems. Where games...
Next interconnect rate cut coming
The mobile termination rate glide path implemented by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) in 2010 will see one final drop in wholesale interconnect rates. On 1 March 2013, these rates will be slashed to R0.40, from a high of R1.25 three...
Record growth for PayPass
MasterCard Worldwide has announced record growth of its contactless payments technology, MasterCard PayPass, across the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region in 2012, citing a 28% year-on-year increase in merchant locations. MasterCard’s PayPass...
Personal data fatigue sets in
Digital consumers around the world are starting to tire of their personal data being collected across the Internet, says Ovum. The global industry analysts paint a threatening scenario for the Internet economy, as consumers seek out new tools that allow them to remain...
School textbooks live on the iPad
ZA Books is a new online bookstore launched by Apple distributor Core Group, focusing on school-level textbooks for iPad users. The company has sourced textbooks from the majority of South Africa’s academic publishers, and made them available for purchase and download...
Pick n Pay uses SUSE Linux solution
Enterprise Linux solutions provider SUSE has deployed a SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service solution to provide proactive management and total control of an extensive POS estate for Pick n Pay, one of South Africa’s largest retailers. Matthew Lee, regional manager...
A business case for data governance
There are 10 basic, yet important steps to building a business case for data governance.Within each step are a number of best practices that define the level of programme success, failure or mediocrity. These steps involve strategy development, value identification,...
BlackBerry, Trend Micro boost security
BlackBerry has announced that it is working with Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cloud security, to expand the protection it already provides to BlackBerry customers against malware and privacy issues related to third-party applications. As part of a...
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 cable in...
Northern phase of public network done
Building of the installation sites for the “northern ring” of state-owned Broadband Infraco’s new national network has been completed by Plessey. Broadband Infraco was founded with the purpose of improving market efficiency in the long distance connectivity segment by...
Cybercrooks have gamers in their sights
There were about 7 000 attempts to infect gamers around the world in 2012, according to data from Kaspersky Labs. These attacks are launched in an attempt to gain access to personal user data, such as passwords to online games and online banking systems. Where games...
Next interconnect rate cut coming
The mobile termination rate glide path implemented by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) in 2010 will see one final drop in wholesale interconnect rates. On 1 March 2013, these rates will be slashed to R0.40, from a high of R1.25 three...