Pepkor Lifestyle has confirmed that customer phone numbers were compromised in a data security incident that occurred at its third-party SMS marketing provider, Mobiz. The data breach affects customers of Pepkor Lifestyle’s retail brands, which include Incredible, HiFi Corp, Russels, Bradlows, Rochester, and Sleepmasters. Read: Valve unveils Steam Frame, a wireless standalone VR headset Pepkor…
Protecting South African businesses is a collaborative effort that depends on the right partnerships, technology, and expertise. At the recent ITWeb GRC 2025 event at The Forum in Bryanston, Stiaan de Waal, South Africa country manager at DataGroupIT, and Neil Cosser, regional sales director, Cybersecurity products at Thales, unpacked Thales’ acquisition of Imperva and how…
Key highlights Pioneering finance instrument aimed to strengthen resilience and early warnings worldwide seeks initial capitalization of USD 200 million by the end of 2026 If backed, the bond will enable five-fold increase in internationally shared weather and climate data Surface weather and climate data are the invisible ingredient of every forecast, early warning, and…
The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), has convened a two-day multi-stakeholder consultation to pave the way for the development of Liberia’s National Data Policy. The consultation, which runs from November 13th to 14th, 2025, at the Mamba Point Hotel in Monrovia, brings…
In the 2024/25 financial year, 2 374 data breaches were reported to the Information Regulator. Data breaches are on the rise in South Africa, with the Information Regulator reporting a sharp increase in incident notifications. This emerged yesterday at a media briefing by advocate Pansy Tlakula, chairperson of the Information Regulator. Tlakula presented the high-level…
Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on a U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York. The facilities, which will be designed to support the company’s rapid enterprise growth and its long-term research agenda, will be developed in partnership with Fluidstack. Fluidstack is an AI cloud…
The demand for data science talent is growing fast, as AI becomes essential to how companies operate. Zindi, an online network of professional data science talent, says the growing deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) by African businesses has seen it register 92 000 data practitioners on the platform since inception. Launched in September 2018, Zindi…
Candice Solomons, Business Executive: Data & Analytics at iOCO. As organisations move from disparate proofs of concept (POCs) to enterprise-wide AI deployments, it is crucial for them to build high-quality, properly governed data foundations to ensure that their AI investments deliver the expected operational benefits, business value such as long-term efficiency, and ROI. This is…
The author, Paul Colmer Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence. And I mean everyone. The hype reminds me of the fanfare around 5G’s launch – all promise, waiting to see delivery. We built and enabled those towers everywhere, and now? Well, let’s just say the revolution was somewhat overstated. Which brings us to the current question:…
Boomi Recognized as an Exemplary Vendor in the ISG Buyers Guides™ for Data Integration and Master Data Management 2025 Boomi™, the leader in AI-driven automation, today announced it has been named an Exemplary Vendor in both the ISG Buyers Guide™ for Data Integration and the ISG Buyers Guide™ for Master Data Management 2025. This press…
