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Morocco amongst top three countries to suffer industrial computer...

The percentage of industrial computers under attack grew from over 17% in July 2016 to more than 24% in December 2016, with the top three sources of infection being the Internet, removable storage devices and...

2017 has witnessed a 5,000-fold decrease in the largest spam botnet mailings

According to Kaspersky Lab’s ‘Spam and phishing in Q1 2017’ report, the world’s largest spam botnet, Necurs, demonstrated a relative decline in its fraudulent mailshot traffic. In December 2016, K...

Availability gap inhibits digital transformation and costs enterprises $21.8M...

96% of organisations have digital transformation initiatives on their roadmap and more than half of those initiatives are in process now. There is obviously a huge appetite across enterprises to utilise innovation for...

IDC: worldwide tablet shipments decline 8.5% in the first quarter

The worldwide tablet market once again contracted in the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17) with total shipments of 36.2 million, a year-over-year decline of 8.5%, according to preliminary data from the International Data...

Cash costs South African consumers R23 billion a year – Mastercard study

Cash cost consumers R23 billion or 0.52% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2015, according to a new Mastercard study released today at the World Economic Forum on Africa. These costs are disproportionately c...

Concerns about online privacy hindering development of digital economy

A new global survey reveals that Internet users are increasingly concerned about their online privacy, and that 49% of users polled say lack of trust is their main reason for not shopping online. The survey, conducted...

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