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Is South Africa a Playground for Cybercriminals?
The Attacks From All Angles 2021 Mid-year Cybersecurity Report by Trend Micro highlighted a 47% year-on-year increase in email threats as well as malicious files and URLs in the first quarter of 2021 globally. South Africa’s technology landscape is almost identical to that of other countries, which has seen black hat hackers using it as a testing ground for cybersecurity attacks before these are launched on their intended end-users. Ransomware Remains the Prime Threat Globally, ransomware remained the standout threat in the first half of the year. The pandemic has highlighted how easy it is to buy ransomware as a service (Raas) on the dark web. Africa accounted for 1.7% of these attacks, with 1.05% being targeted at South Africa. Our findings show that locally, South Africa was in the top ...
All M-PESA Services Are Going Offline Tonight But for How Long?
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Chat on WhatsApp from as Little as R3 with Telkom’s New Bundles
Image sourced from YoMZanzi Telkom South Africa has revealed new chat bundles available to customers. Subscribers can now gain access to eight social media platforms for as little as R3 for 50MB daily, including WhatsApp, Threema, WeChat, Viber, Telegram, LINE, Signal, and Facebook Messenger. New and existing customers on Post-paid, Hybrid and Prepaid mobile qualify for the following offers: Daily Chat bundles – valid for 24 hours from the date of activation. Weekly Chat bundles – valid for 7 days from the date of activation. Monthly bundles – valid for 31 days from the date of activation. Telkom’s new social media bundles. Telkom says in a statement that it has taken heed of its customers need for flexibility. “What informed the structure of these new chat bundles is our customer and real...
Liquid Connects East & West Africa with Brand New Fibre Cable Route
Image sourced from The Zimbabwe Mail. Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a leading pan-African telecommunications technology group has announced the launch of its shortest terrestrial fibre route between the East to the West coasts of Africa, connecting Mombasa, Kenya to Muanda, DRC. With the completion of this route, Liquid establishes a new global internet transit route between Asia and the USA through Africa, avoiding high-risk bottlenecks in the Middle East and Europe. Liquid hopes the new route will serve the tens of millions of people in Africa’s landlocked cities, towns, and villages. “Access to high-speed connectivity is vital to ensuring that organisations on the continent can continue their digital transformation journeys to remain relevant and be part of this growing digital econo...
Lenovo Appoints New GM for Middle East & Africa
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Really Bad News for the Price of Petrol in South Africa
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MTN Nigeria CEO Apologises for Outage, Gives Subscribers Free Data
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4 Things You Should Know About Virtual Power Plants
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MWeb Spared the Axe – Finds New Director in ICT Expert
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SEACOM Boosts its IP Network with a Serious Bandwidth Upgrade
Image sourced from the Design Quarter. SEACOM, a fibre-led telecoms provider and owner of extensive ICT infrastructure across Africa, has announced a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) upgrade for its IP network. The increased capacity of 100 Gbps equipment reduces the cost and complexity associated with procuring and maintaining multiple 10 Gbps ports and also simplifies load balancing through the flexibility of having 10 times more bandwidth per port. Network providers will be able to add more customers, expand their networks, or reconfigure traffic flows without disrupting network traffic or incurring multiple cross-connecting fees. According to a statement from the company, this investment will allow ISPs, CDN’s, Global and African Providers to leverage SEACOM’s network infrastructure to acc...
When It Comes to Cybercrime Beware of Social Engineers
You would be forgiven for thinking that terms like phishing, vishing, whaling, and pharming all had something to do with either a water sport or a pharmaceutical company, but every one of these is a cybercrime attack. These attacks leverage social engineering techniques to hack personal accounts, infect devices with ransomware, gain access to organisations or steal information to be sold on to the highest underground bidders. As Anna Collard, SVP of content and evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa points out, it has become absolutely essential for people to be mindful of what they post on social media. Anna Collard, SVP of content and evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa. “The risk of identity theft has never been greater and according to a report by SAFPS, has increased by 337% in 2020,” she says. “When ...
Apple Watch Series 7 Pre-Orders Open in SA + Prices
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