
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupts cross-border syndicates
The unit dismantles phishing, ransomware and crime-as-a-service platforms impacting African businesses and public sectors.
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The unit dismantles phishing, ransomware and crime-as-a-service platforms impacting African businesses and public sectors.

A decentralised satellite network that no entity controls could make it more difficult for authoritarian governments to impose complete internet blackouts.
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The takedown utilised multiple technologies, including licence plate recognition systems, surveillance cameras and drones.

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PayJustNow details how the vetting process works for Buy Now, Pay Later users in South Africa.

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Federal prosecutors have revealed that Peter Williams, the former general manager of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris’s hacking tools division Trenchant, sold eight stolen software exploits to a Russian broker whose customers — including the Russian government — could have used them to access “millions of computers and devices around the world.” Williams, a 39-year-old Australian national,...

Lenovo has warned about mounting pressure on PC shipments as a worsening memory-chip shortage grips the industry.

Smart ID application and renewal services are now available at more Standard Bank branches across Gauteng.

The company will join other enterprises, technology providers, innovators and policymakers to examine how AI is reshaping business and the broader economy.

The Department of Finance has no legal obligation to give the Post Office R3.8 billion.

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
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It’s time to look beyond the enterprise browser, to extensions, replacements and the next phase of web security.

AI’s immersion into the contact centre may be the turning point for companies wanting to humanise connections and build better customer relationships.

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Chinese AI firms are readying a wave of new models one year after DeepSeek shook the global tech industry.

Sanral wants electric vehicle charging stations next to its highways and regional routes to hand over up to 3% of their energy revenues and 7% of other product revenues — much higher than the 0.5% it takes from fuel sales and 2.5% for other goods from fuel station forecourts.