“Act now or pay a much higher price later.” The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has yet to reach its peak, but treatment centres are already at saturation point, with health officials warning that far greater urgency is needed to contain the virus. Since the outbreak was first declared…
Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel Small software bugs that developers once safely ignored can now be strung together by AI into working exploits – and the code to launch those attacks at scale generated on demand. That is the warning from Meerah Rajavel, global CIO of Palo Alto Networks, who spoke to TechCentral during…
Apple CEO Tim Cook Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset increasing memory and storage chip costs, CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. A surge in AI-driven demand for data centres has forced consumer electronics companies into a fierce competition for dwindling supplies of the key components,…
Iran and the US say a deal to end the conflict is in force, but questions remain over its implementation. Published On 18 Jun 202618 Jun 2026 US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian have electronically signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the nearly four-month-long conflict between the United States, Israel…
Global trust in news falls to lowest level since 2015, Reuters Institute 2026 report warns In 45 countries, online video now surpasses broadcast television as a source of news. By TECH CORRESPONDENT Trust in news has fallen to its lowest level globally since records began in 2015, according to the latest Reuters Institute for the…
Israeli strikes have killed 3,637 people in Lebanon since March, with 11,188 wounded, the Health Ministry says.
Iran’s military has ceased strikes against Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNBC on Monday, but Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if the IDF continues operations in Lebanon. Iran and Israel traded strikes on Sunday night for the first time since a ceasefire was agreed in April. The Islamic Republic fired missiles towards…
While the FBI says it is constantly assessing security risks, it has identified no credible or specific threats against the tournament, co-Deputy Director Christopher Raia told NBC News. But federal law enforcement does expect security issues to emerge, he said. “I think there will be some kind of security event,” he said. “I think what…
Mark Palmer, board director for the Cloud Security Alliance South Africa Chapter and security go-to-market lead for Microsoft SA. The explosive enterprise rush to deploy autonomous AI agents has triggered an identity and governance crisis, rendering traditional corporate defence models “completely insufficient” to handle machine-to-machine risk, according to Mark Palmer, board director for the Cloud Security…
Joe Tidy, dedicated cyber correspondent at BBC (Photo: Strike a Pose Studios) Teenage hackers pose an increasingly serious threat to organisations around the world, as they cross traditional lines in their behaviour, and they are motivated by chaos and a desire for infamy as much as they are driven by money. This is according to…
