This week reveals it's the human factor causing all the problems, unpatched systems with dated anti-virus software get hit with bots, and perceived versus actual risk.

This week: tenders are at the centre of both the Verizon-IS "lockdown" case, and the presidential advisor scandal.

This year's African ICT Achievers awards featured a bewildering assortment of genuine achievers and incompetents among its finalists.

The beauty of the Internet is it makes communicating easier.

While the US celebrated Thanksgiving this week, leaving that market quiet, Telkom had little to be thankful for.

This week two major organisations released their annual reports on the state of global information security, highlighting what's front of mind for today's CIO, and the latest malware figures from Eset are out.

Microsoft says as long as humans are writing computer code, there will be bugs. It should tell British Airways.

This week: The telco loses two key verdicts, Reunert's billion-rand BEE deal, and Virgin Mobile axes CEO.

I like awards; I like being able to call myself an award-winning journalist. And I imagine this is why companies enter - or like being entered - into such competitions.

An advantage of working in the industry is I have a bit of insight into the myriad wonders for which IT can be used.

Company results and the buy-out of Orion Telecom dominated recent local ICT headlines.

This week, Microsoft's Jim Allchin back-pedals on a Vista security claim, SANS releases its annual top 20 threats, and watch out for that funny video clip - it could contain an infection.