This week's ThreatsDay covers ransomware attacks, critical security flaws, credential theft, new malware, and sneaky tricks attackers use to break in.

Data residency settles where South Africa's data lives. Sovereignty is about who controls it, and it is lost one copy at a ...

The IT Passport exam features the same themes almost every year. Therefore, I took the questions from the most recent five years (FY2022–FY2026, 500 questions in total) published by the IPA ...

According to cybersecurity company ThreatDown, AI-powered vulnerability research is contributing to a sharp increase in security updates, raising concerns that IT teams could fall behind as patching ...

Compare eight top penetration testing tools for 2026, including Astra, Metasploit, and Kali Linux, with updated pricing, ...

Regarding the 34 domestic security incidents announced between September 2026 and early October, we read the original ...

One of the youngest women sent to death row set to be executed Please stop adding this ingredient to scrambled eggs Blood pressure medication recalled nationwide. See affected drug Texas faces ...

Your last SQL Server end-of-support deadlineBy Johan Lamberts, MD, Ascent TechnologyIssued by Ascent TechnologyJohannesburg, 28 Sep 2026 End the SQL Server deadline cycle for good. (Image: Ascent ...

Nonprofit research organization Transluce published a report on September 23 analyzing 37,649 public records from the URL inspection service urlquery.net. Timestamped logs show AI agents that were ...

Apple is developing its first enterprise rack server in 15 years — a machine powered by forthcoming M8 Ultra chips and targeted at AI developers, governments, and large businesses — and the most ...

Windows Server 2022 reaches the end of mainstream support in October. Security updates will continue through extended support until October 2031. Microsoft recommends evaluating Windows Server 2025 ...

Taiwan's ASIC design-service suppliers all posted year-over-year revenue growth in August 2026, but the underlying figures point to sharply different stages of the custom-silicon cycle. Some ...