
Your ‘CristianoRonaldo7@@’ FIFA password is not safe
From Messi to Ronaldo, fans are turning player names into passwords – and Specops found over 1.2 million compromised credentials to prove it.
FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026, 01:54

From Messi to Ronaldo, fans are turning player names into passwords – and Specops found over 1.2 million compromised credentials to prove it.

Customer data from more than 350 hotels around the world may have been accessed as part of realistic reservation-hijacking scams.

ASUS breakfast explored how companies can adopt AI without losing human judgment and creativity.

Between January and May, a total of 376 140 new voter registrations were completed online, reflecting strong uptake of the digital platform, says the IEC.

The Gauteng Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on e-Government will investigate the continual digital connectivity rollout delays.

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Downtime means lost revenue, trust and productivity – which is why connectivity is now strategic.

The company will highlight how its Built-In Cyber Warranty Protection helps qualifying managed services clients move from reactive cyber security to a more accountable, managed cyber risk model.
A criminal could be masquerading as a celebrity, web store or family member asking for your money. Detecting scams requires a new approach.

The company says cyber security must be embedded into governance, technology strategy, infrastructure design, human behaviour and operational resilience.

The conversation surrounding AI in South Africa and across the continent has reached a critical inflection point. For the past two years, boardroom discussions have been dominated by the sheer intelligence of Large Language Models (LLMs). But as the initial hype settles, local business leaders are confronting a sobering reality: the most critical challenge in […]

Retail ERP connects the parts of a retail business that often sit apart, says Arch Retail Solutions.

Meet the wet bulb globe temperature, the ominous measure that shows when it’s too hot to go outside.

Through a partnership with HPE Networking and One80 Technology Group, the school is building a connected campus designed to support academic excellence and extracurricular achievement.
Over five frantic days, I gambled my family’s life savings on a hunch that A.I. could outperform a real estate agent.

So far this year, authorities have seized or demanded ballots from elections in four states. Experts fear the trend could throw the midterms into chaos unless courts draw a line.

Spinnaker has launched in South Africa, promising to tackle costly ERP software support for local organisations.

Bloomberg has named South African-founded fintech Omnisient one of its African Startups to Watch in 2026, recognising the company’s work in helping banks and insurers assess people who are excluded from affordable financial services because they lack traditional credit histories. Bloomberg positioned Omnisient around a simple but powerful question: what if your grocery basket could […]

The South African Broadcasting Corporation appoints Dr Vuyo Nyembezi as group executive of its technology division.

MortgageMarket, a FinTech and the largest online marketplace for home loans in South Africa, today announced a landmark industry development becoming the first company in 25 years to secure direct bank mortgage origination contracts with major lenders including FNB, Absa, Standard Bank, Nedbank, RMB and Investec. This milestone fundamentally changes how industry players such as, […]

King’s College London researchers hope the chip will help answer previously unanswerable questions about the most important natural processes.