Africa: Report Reveals DDoS As New Dimension of Cyberthreats to Digital Infrastructure in West Africa

Africa: Report Reveals DDoS As New Dimension of Cyberthreats to Digital Infrastructure in West Africa

NETSCOUT Systems has released its latest global threat intelligence report, which exposed the dangerous trend in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on digital infrastructure across West African countries in the first half of 2025, Nigeria inclusive. According to the report, countries like Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali were most hit within the first…

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Former Dimension Data execs, BEE partner trade blows

Former Dimension Data execs, BEE partner trade blows

Former Dimension Data chairman Jeremy Ord and Sonja De Bruyn, co-founder of Identity Partners. A war of words has broken out between former Dimension Data (DiData) executives and their former empowerment partner, Identity Partners, over the sale of The Campus office park in Bryanston, Johannesburg. Tensions escalated after former executives – Jeremy Ord, Grant Bodley,…

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Former Dimension Data execs accuse NTT of smear tactics

Former Dimension Data execs accuse NTT of smear tactics

Former Dimension Data executive chairman Jeremy Ord Five of six former Dimension Data executives who were found last November by the high court to have engaged in a “brazen and dishonest” scheme involving the sale of the company’s Johannesburg head office have hit back at “false claims” that they engaged in BEE fronting and improper…

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