Global hacker group Anonymous appears to be taking aim at government websites in Zimbabwe in protest at the government’s decision to block access to social media services and curtail access to the Internet.
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As crypto assets such as bitcoin continue to enjoy popularity among speculative investors, the South African Reserve Bank has kick-started the process for “light regulation” of these products.
South Africa is considering doubling the amount of electricity it plans to buy from a proposed multibillion-dollar hydro power plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Windows 10 Mobile will not receive any support or updates by the end of the year, spelling the death of Microsoft’s iOS and Android alternative.
A bug on Twitter exposed the tweets of some Android users who chose to keep their accounts private for more than four years, the social network has revealed.
Helios Towers, which earlier this week announced its entry into the South African market in a joint venture with Vulatel, said on Friday that is has acquired a controlling stake in SA Towers.
The planned merger of the departments of communications and telecommunications & postal services was “gaining traction”, with senior staff urged to work quickly to conclude the “configuration”.
More than 770 million e-mail addresses have been discovered in a database allegedly used by hackers, security researcher Troy Hunt has revealed.
Zimbabwean lawyers and a rights group are going to court to challenge the government’s shutdown of the Internet, which has yet to be fully restored after this week’s nationwide strike.
Some of the brightest minds in America are pooling their brain power to create a cryptocurrency that’s designed to do what bitcoin has proved incapable of: processing thousands of transactions a second.