Cybercriminals gained access to an e-mail repository belonging to financial services group Liberty and it’s this information they have used to attempt to shake down the company for millions of rand, CEO David Munro said on Sunday
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Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.
In this special edition of the TechCentral podcast, we bring you a press conference, held on Sunday evening in Johannesburg, at which Liberty Group CEO David Munro spoke out for the first time about a cyberattack on its
On TalkCentral this week, your regular show hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are joined by former Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt all the way from Switzerland to talk about the week’s big technology news
In this episode, Duncan McLeod is joined on an Internet call by Bjorn Dingemans, founder and CEO of BlockMesh, a Somerset West-based start-up that wants to create what it calls “the world’s first decentralised, cost-free
Dark Fibre Africa sees fifth-generation wireless broadband networks as a big growth opportunity as the infrastructure needed to power these networks will require extensive backhaul to a much denser network of base
Following complaints lodged by Cell C and MTN, the Competition Commission has investigated and cleared wireless broadband operator Rain’s agreement with Vodacom. The two operators lodged their complaints
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Rain CEO Willem Roos on the launch of the wireless operator’s mobile offerings last week. Roos explains the packages, how they work and who they
In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Len de Villiers, until recently group chief information officer at Telkom, to talk about the role of IT management in South Africa. In the wide-ranging discussion, De Villiers talks
In a full-page, paid-for open letter in the Sunday Times, addressed to “the political leaders of South Africa”, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko implored the politicians to have a national conversation about the importance of ICT
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss the big Vumatel sale to Remgro’s Community Investment Ventures Holdings. Also in the show, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko’s open letter to South