The Western Cape Blood Service was hit by a cyberattack on Thursday morning, forcing the non-profit to resort to manual, offline processing while it restores its systems from backup.
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State logistics firm will lift the force majeure it declared at its container terminals from Monday, after a cyberattack, believed to be a ransomware incident, hampered operations.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has laid out a funding plan to help the company, which generates the bulk of South Africa’s power from coal, transition away from the use of the dirtiest fossil fuel.
The movie-goers who used to throng the cinemas of Johannesburg’s Sandton City shopping centre have, since the pandemic, watched the latest releases from a big screen in a rooftop car park.
Transnet appears to have been targeted with a strain of ransomware that cybersecurity experts have linked to a series of high-profile data breaches likely carried out by crime gangs from Eastern Europe and Russia.
JSE-listed technology group Altron has made several changes to its board, including appointing a new chairman and a new executive director who will also serve as chief financial officer.
Contactless payments platform SnapScan has released an update to its app that allows people to make peer-to-peer payments from its electronic wallet.
South African banks said on Thursday that replacing 1 400 ATMs vandalised and looted during recent violent unrest could take about two months. As much as R20-million could have been taken.
First National Bank said on Thursday that it is looking to hire 300 technology professionals with expertise in areas such as software development and cybersecurity.
The public enterprises ministry said late on Wednesday that preliminary assessments showed that Transnet and its customer data had not been compromised by a recent cyberattack.