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SA’s April arrival stats reflect declin

Statistics SA has released its arrival numbers for April 2018. The figures show an overall decline in arrivals between April last year and April 2018, with the country seeing 6% fewer arrivals.

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This audio technology could make headphones obsolete by 2019

A startup called Noveto has come up with technology to deliver sound right to your ears without your wearing any device at all. • The technology uses focused sound waves.

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Here are 4 ways SA companies should protect your emails against a Liberty-style hack

It appears that Liberty was hacked through a compromised email which is notoriously difficult to secure, says Dominic White, Chief Technical Officer at cybersecurity consultancy SensePost.

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HMRC deactivates record number of fake websites

HM Revenue & Customs has removed more than 20,000 malicious websites in the past year, but warns people to stay alert to the threat from online fraudsters

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198 million Americans hit by `largest ever` voter records leak

Personal data on 198 million voters, including analytics data that suggests who a person is likely to vote for and why, was stored on an unsecured Amazon server.

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Imagine a world without OPEC. It isn`t paradise

Imagine a world without OPEC. This is what the sponsors of legislation introduced in both houses of Congress seem to want. Versions of the `No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act`, or the NOPEC bill, are working their way through the Senate an ...

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Best free backup software

You never know when disaster will strike so it`s always best to have a plan to save your data... If you don’t backup your data, at some point in the future this decision could come back to bite you. Disk drives will ultimately fail, or a ransom ...

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It`s all hands on deck for SA`s digital future

We are all familiar with the hyperbole of technology: digital can change the world for the better by making it faster, smarter and more connected. The sentiment is true, but digital technology is not a genie ready to pop out of the lamp and grant ...

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How to build web traffic without turning to the dark side

You can buy links and likes, but they won’t do you any favours in the long-run Every web startup faces the same challenge: how do you get noticed amongst all that competition and build traffic? The clever money says leave all that search engine ...

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How others get rich off your personal data

The Value Of Your Personal Data Data is being collected about you constantly. All this personal data is being used to send you advertisements and banners, one would say. But that is just the start.

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Hackers, corporates drive cyber security arms race

Cape Town �` The battle to protect company assets will result in a rise in security budgets and increasing demand for IT professionals, says an international organisation. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), public data breaches ...

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Can machine learning save you from scammers?

Scammers may be tricking vast numbers of unsuspecting customers into giving up their personal details so that fraudulent transactions can take place â€` but these crafty thieves may have met their match in machine learning. Vishers, phishers and ...

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UK firms in the dark around the impact of cyber attacks

UK firms have a long way to go in building the business resilience required to withstand cyber threats and other major disruptions, a study shows

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Smart cities: how IOT is putting Africa on the map

Smart cities: how IOT is putting Africa on the map Internet of things infrastructure opens the door to technological innovation from the private sector, says IoT.nxt.

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Cybercrime: Is that email really from your boss?

While consumers have become more familiar with phishing scams where generic emails are sent out to lots of people, it might be trickier to spot so-called CEO or CFO fraud and email spoofing, cautions the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) ...