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Ensuring sustainable compliance and security
Considering the complexity and scope of today’s regulatory environment, compliance has become a key corporate initiative that cannot be ignored. Coupled with the rise in security threats, organisations are now searching for a more effective, sustainable, and scalable...
Topcopy offers 24-hour service with Xerox
Claremont-based printing services provider Topcopy has purchased a high-volume Xerox Colour 1000 digital press from Bytes Document Solutions and Oxbow, in preparation for its new 24-hour print service. “With 60% of our customers doing business with us online – via...
The corporate toilet: a hacking hotspot
There is a long list of consumer devices that can be hacked and the information used to access corporate or personal data. Since the Black Hat security conference in September 2013, the toilet has now been added to that list, and if something as innocuous and...
SA comes under malware attack
South African businesses face unprecedented levels of cyber-attacks, as global security vulnerabilities and threats against systems, applications and personal networks have reached their highest-ever recorded level. According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report,...
IBM leverages big data to fight TB
IBM and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) have announced plans to research new treatment approaches to fight tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. IBM’s big data analytics technologies will be put to work on bacterial genetics and...
Operation Windigo infects Unix servers
A widespread cybercriminal campaign that has seized control of over 25 000 Unix servers worldwide has been uncovered by security researchers at Eset, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and other agencies. The attack,...
EASSy upgrades to improve cable efficiency
Telkom has announced that it is an active participant in the latest upgrades to one of the most modern cable systems serving Africa: the East African Submarine System (EASSy). The EASSy consortium recently announced that it will soon be deploying the latest 100Gbps...
Mobile workstations hit a slump in EMEA
EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) mobile workstation shipments fell by one percentage point in 2013, following a more severe decline of 20 percentage points in 2012. Economic recovery and a slow shift from a cost-cutting mentality to a more business-friendly...
Smart building set for global take-off
Global spending on smart buildings is expected to grow from $7,3-billion in 2014 to $21,9-billion in 2018, representing a 28,4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). This is one of the findings from IDC Energy Insights’ new report Global Smart Buildings Forecast 2013 -...
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia delayed
Nokia expects the transaction whereby the company will sell substantially all of its Devices and Services business and license its patents to Microsoft to close in April 2014 – rather than during the current quarter, as initially thought. The two companies remain...
RS a Fairchild Semiconductor distributor
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, has secured a franchised distribution deal with Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile semiconductor solutions. The terms of the agreement license RS to...
Connected users change insurance industry
With the growth of mobile, social media and the internet as a viable distribution channel a new market segment has emerged that sees the development of a new supplier-consumer relationship. To stay ahead of the curve, insurance companies must adapt their communication...
Kaspersky patents network scanning tech
Kaspersky Lab has successfully patented technology that enhances the effectiveness of network traffic scanning for the presence of cyber-threats. Patent 8650646 issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) describes a method for minimising the...
Ensuring sustainable compliance and security
Considering the complexity and scope of today’s regulatory environment, compliance has become a key corporate initiative that cannot be ignored. Coupled with the rise in security threats, organisations are now searching for a more effective, sustainable, and scalable...
Topcopy offers 24-hour service with Xerox
Claremont-based printing services provider Topcopy has purchased a high-volume Xerox Colour 1000 digital press from Bytes Document Solutions and Oxbow, in preparation for its new 24-hour print service. “With 60% of our customers doing business with us online – via...
The corporate toilet: a hacking hotspot
There is a long list of consumer devices that can be hacked and the information used to access corporate or personal data. Since the Black Hat security conference in September 2013, the toilet has now been added to that list, and if something as innocuous and...
SA comes under malware attack
South African businesses face unprecedented levels of cyber-attacks, as global security vulnerabilities and threats against systems, applications and personal networks have reached their highest-ever recorded level. According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report,...
IBM leverages big data to fight TB
IBM and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) have announced plans to research new treatment approaches to fight tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. IBM’s big data analytics technologies will be put to work on bacterial genetics and...
Operation Windigo infects Unix servers
A widespread cybercriminal campaign that has seized control of over 25 000 Unix servers worldwide has been uncovered by security researchers at Eset, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and other agencies. The attack,...
EASSy upgrades to improve cable efficiency
Telkom has announced that it is an active participant in the latest upgrades to one of the most modern cable systems serving Africa: the East African Submarine System (EASSy). The EASSy consortium recently announced that it will soon be deploying the latest 100Gbps...