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Even without well-stocked minibars and 500 thread count sheets, some hotel rooms are hard to leave, as Dominique Herman discovered on a weekend in the winelands.
Breaches are not a new phenomenon, and you may be surprised to find out that while the data leaks mentioned above didn’t impact you, others possibly did.
After Johann Rupert-linked Remgro’s decision to buy part of fibre provider Vumatel, the owners of Vox Telecom may see an opportunity to jump on the fibre-sale bandwagon.
It’s been a terrible few months for cybersecurity in South Africa as local companies lurch from one data breach to the next.
In recent years, Facebook has been on an acquisition streak, snapping up just about every major multi-billion dollar valued internet startup it can get its hands on.
While competition in digital offerings in the South African banking space has heated up in recent years, FNB is still managing to keep itself ahead of the pack.
Pansy Tlakula wrote a letter to Facebook demanding answers over the extent of South Africans impacted by the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
Watching US lawmakers try to pepper Facebook founder, CEO and chair Mark Zuckerberg with questions last week made for entertaining television viewing. The only problem was that Zuckerberg got away with a lot.
To get an idea of the scale of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, one just needs to look at how many South Africans were exposed to the data breach.
The Electronic Communications Amendment Bill is the telecommunications’ industry’s mining charter, Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub warned at a government workshop.