by Dianne Bayley | May 30, 2022 | Innovation
When WhatsApp Business launched in 2018, it’s safe to say that many people feared they’d be inundated with promotional messages from businesses, by Dori-Jo Bonner, Strategist at Striata Africa.Those fears have largely proven unfounded. That’s not because it isn’t...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
A new Android Trojan hit more than 10 000 victims in 144 countries, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Zimperium. The Trojan – called FlyTrap by Zimperium researchers – has been able to spread through “hijacking of social media, third-party app stores and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 19, 2021 | Innovation
A booming African mobile app market is being propelled by a growing fintech space, a rise in “super apps” and the Covid-19 pandemic among other factors. AppsFlyer has launched a report with Google that analysed over 6 000 apps and 2-billion installs across South...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 14, 2021 | Security and Legal
Anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android users, has shown which messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers. The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May 2021 were sent via WhatsApp...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 25, 2020 | Security and Legal
As the world becomes increasingly digital as a result of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), more and more of our devices are becoming connected to the open Internet as well as to each other, writes Vishal Barapatre, Chief Technology Officer at In2IT...