Cyber risk for board members in South Africa is no longer a technical problem that stays in the IT department. It is now a governance problem that sits at the boardroom table. Regulators, shareholders and the courts are asking a clear question: who is accountable when personal information is exposed, operations are disrupted or customer…
On 16 July, Hugging Face disclosed something worth pausing on. The AI model and dataset hosting platform confirmed that a breach of its internal infrastructure and service credentials was carried out end to end by an autonomous AI agent, not a human operator working manually. This isn’t the first time AI has featured in an…
South Africa is not a peripheral target. It’s one of the most breached countries on the continent, and 2026 has already delivered a run of incidents at some of the country’s most trusted institutions. Look closely at how each of these attacks actually unfolded, and a pattern emerges: the technology that failed wasn’t missing. It…