OME encrypts sent or received emails through the Electronic Code Book mode, regarded to be a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm. | Continue reading
AFRINIC has released its official tally of the Internet Protocol address space misappropriated from the African region. | Continue reading
The telescope runs JavaScript written using Nombas ScriptEase 5.00e, which was last updated in 2003. | Continue reading
Google’s Equiano subsea cable has arrived in South Africa. | Continue reading
President Cyril Ramaphosa and communications minister Khumbudzo Nthsavheni have enacted the controversial Film and Publications Amendment Act, previously nicknamed the “Internet Censorship Bill.” | Continue reading
Afrihost is set to acquire a majority stake in Cool Ideas, subject to regulatory approvals. | Continue reading
President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Cybercrimes Act into law on Tuesday, which has made it a criminal offence to circulate certain types of harmful messages on social media. | Continue reading
AFRINIC’s internal audit revealed theft of over 4 million IP addresses worth R1.3 billion. | Continue reading
ICASA said the final regulations related to equity ownership by black people and minimum BEE levels for licensees will be published this year. | Continue reading
Experian South Africa CEO Ferdie Pieterse downplayed the seriousness of a data breach which exposed the personal details of 23.4 million individuals. | Continue reading
The Regional Internet Registry for the European region, RIPE NCC, is holding elections to fill three seats on its executive board. The elections will be held at RIPE NCC’s annual general meeting on 13-15 May 2020, with the results live streamed at 10:45 on 15 May. | Continue reading
Windows 10 lost desktop operating system market share in April 2020, according to data from NetMarketShare. | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services went live with its Cape Town region on 22 April 2020, according to MyBroadband readers who use the cloud computing platform. | Continue reading
ICASA’s draft regulations on ownership in the ICT sector have shocked local ISPs and telecoms companies with their strict BBBEE requirements. | Continue reading
Been having an absolute nightmare of an experience on the Rain network the last 2 months.I've been a Rain (via Afrihost) customer since August 2018. I pay R1349/m for 220gb, but combined with rollover / peak + offpeak data, I get around 600gb data to use.For the first year and a … | Continue reading
A months-long investigation has revealed that the theft and sale of swaths of valuable African Internet resources was an inside job. | Continue reading
Investec and OfferZen are launching programmable bank accounts for software developers, which will form part of a beta programme. | Continue reading
Cool Ideas is battling a distributed denial of service attack which it says is the biggest it has faced so far. | Continue reading
Concern about SoftBank Group Corp.’s massive debt load has reared its head again after the company unveiled a $9.5 billion bailout for WeWork this week. | Continue reading
South African IP addresses which belonged to Nedbank, Sasol, Liquid Telecom, Woolworths, Nampak, SITA and the City of Cape Town landed up in strange hands. Here is the story. | Continue reading
Huawei has been investing heavily in the development of its own operating system to compete with Android and iOS. | Continue reading
Power outlets in South Africa with integrated USB ports must include a switch that allows the USB socket to be turned off. That’s the word from Gianfranco Campetti, chair of the SA Bureau of Standards (SABS) SC23B mirror committee. | Continue reading
A security researcher recently contacted MyBroadband to report a vulnerability in the MTN network that could allow hackers to get free data using DNS tunnelling. | Continue reading
Huawei has announced the launch of two new ranges of processors aimed at providing huge amounts of computing power, optimised for artificial intelligence workloads. | Continue reading
The Saldanha Bay Municipality has launched its Baobab proof-of-concept project. | Continue reading