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Wannacry: an analysis of competing hypotheses by Digital Shadows

On 12 May 2017, as the WannaCry ransomware spread across computer networks across the world, a variety of explanations also began to worm their way through the information security community. Who was responsible for...

SANS Endpoint Survey finds cybercriminals are changing attack strategies

Highlighting the change in cybercriminals’ focus from attacking technical vulnerabilities to now exploiting user behaviour, SANS Institute, in its recent survey titled ‘SANS 2017 Endpoint Risks and Protections’, found that ...

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...

PC shipments to South Africa, Turkey, UAE flattening out, recovery from 2018

The Africa and Middle East PC market experienced a mild decline of 1.8% YoY in Q4 2016 to total 3.2 million units, according to global technology research and consulting firm IDC. The decline stemmed from the desktop...

African telecon industry to witness consolidation in 2017 with ISP...

Telcos across Africa are increasingly focusing on effectively maximising their return on investment from data and on monetising emerging opportunities such as the Internet of Things to remain competitive and afloat,...

IDC: Gray imports from UAE delay PC recovery in East Africa

The East Africa PC market including Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda, declined -8.6% YoY in Q4 2016, according to IDC. The research firm says shipments for the quarter fell to 113,303 units as a combination of...

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