WhatsApp’s new ‘secret codes’ add an extra layer of privacy for your locked chats
WhatsApp is rolling out a new “secret codes” feature that adds another layer of privacy to your locked conversations on the messaging platform. The app launched locked chats earlier this year to help people hide sensitive conversations, and is now adding a way to further protect those chats and make
Read MoreFailure of technology to detect attacks is a prime cause of breaches: Survey
Despite the money being poured into cybersecurity by IT departments, the leading cause of breaches of security controls was the failure of technology to detect an attack, a new survey from Trellix suggests. Forty-two per cent of respondents to the international survey of infosec leaders whose organization had suffered a
Read MoreCanadian group gets $2.2 million to research AI threat detection for wireless networks
A group consisting of Canadian university researchers and Ericsson Canada is the latest to have won government funding under the National Cybersecurity Coalition for advanced investigations into meeting cyber threats. Researchers from Concordia University, the University of Manitoba, the University of Waterloo, and Ericsson said this week they will spend
Read MoreHow to memorize the periodic table
Motivation Memorizing the periodic table has some practical value, especially if you’re a chemist, but in any case it’s an interesting exercise, easier to do than it may sound. And it’s a case study for how you might memorize other things of more practical value to you personally. Major system
Read MoreFNB Customers reach R3b spending peak on black Friday
FNB customers once again hit R3 billion in purchases on Black Friday, in line with last year’s highest spend peak. FNB saw a positive shift in usage of the FNB Virtual Card, with a 94% year on year increase in customer spend over Black Friday weekend. Robust Increase Transactions Additionally,
Read MoreKognitos raises $35M to help businesses automate back-office processes
Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency. It’s their commercial imperative. Sometimes, that takes the form of budget cuts. Other times, it’s more drastic — e.g. layoffs or hiring freezes. But Binny Gill, the co-founder of Kognitos, makes the case that companies can have their
Read MoreSouth Korea to launch digital currency pilot with 100,000 residents next year
The Bank of Korea (BOK) rolled out details on its pilot program for its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), stating that 100,000 selected Korean citizens will join the trial in the fourth quarter of next year. The participants will be able to buy goods with tokens in the form
Read MoreTelkom empowers employees by fostering lifelong learning
Telkom, a leading telecommunications Company in South Africa, announced the graduation of 139 employees from its Managers of Managers (MoMP) and Foundational Management (FMP) programmes in collaboration with the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB). Dedicating Resources to Shaping Future Leaders The initiative was born out
Read MoreNomuPay, formed out of Wirecard’s ashes, acquires Total Processing for tooling and customer service
NomuPay — the payments startup that was formed out of some of the healthier pieces of the dramatically failed fintech Wirecard — has made an acquisition as it continues on its trajectory of better economies of scale. It has picked up Total Processing, a startup out of Manchester that builds
Read MoreMeta reportedly set to launch Threads in the EU next month
Since its launch in July, Meta’s text-based social network Threads has gained many features, but a major missing part in the puzzle has been the app’s availability in the EU. The company, however, could launch the platform in the EU next month, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report
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