South Africa stories - Page 6

New Zealand ranks eighth in NordVPN's Cyber Risk Index, identifying it as highly vulnerable to cyber attacks due to high internet penetration and usage.

The UN Global Goals call for action to end poverty, protect Earth, and encourage peace and prosperity by 2030.

Dicker Data bolsters its AV division with 50+ years of experience through the appointments of Andrew Upshon and Les Boros, enhancing its market capabilities.

More than two thirds of organisations fear the COVID-19 pandemic will have a negative impact on their business.

Kaspersky research has found that DDoS attacks have almost doubled in Q4 2019 with roughly 28% of attacks occurring on the weekend.

Kaspersky reports nearly double the number of DDoS attacks in Q4 2019 compared to the previous year, noting a surge in weekend and Sunday incidents.

While it took more than a decade to add Xero's first million subscribers, it took two and a half years to add the next million.

Protiviti and Trintech announce a strategic partnership to equip finance teams with real-time intelligence, aiming to boost efficiency and reduce risks.

The AWS Europe (Spain) Region is expected to open late 2022 or 2023 and will consist of three Availability Zones at launch.

A student flat in leafy Waikato town of Cambridge started as the home of a software startup called Rocketspark.

Financial software provider Trintech is expanding globally, with a 60% increase in sales for the first half of 2019.

The acquisition gives Zip exposure to four key geographies – New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States and South Africa.

Proofpoint found that the education sector was the most targeted of both brute-force and sophisticated phishing attempts.

The EMEA external storage market hit record highs in Q4 2018, growing 16.4% in USD, with Dell EMC leading the surge in flash-array deployments.

Fifteen per cent of IT managers at Australian companies who were victim to one or more cyber attacks last year can't pinpoint how the attackers gained entry.

In launching the two new facilities, Microsoft becomes the first global provider to deliver cloud services from data centres on the continent.

Facebook Africa is deploying local fact-checkers and improving digital literacy to combat misinformation ahead of elections across the continent.

Ongoing trade tensions between China and the US  are having a significant impact on the cloud service providers market.

Around a fifth (21%) of New Zealanders who had encountered tech support scams were fooled into continuing with an interaction.

Higher average selling prices across standard and custom servers has seen data centre vendors cashing in on a bustling market.