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What are the real intentions of tracking IMEI...

Imagine if you had a magic map that could show you where all your favorite toys were at any time. Sounds pretty? Well, in Kenya, the government wants to do something similar, but with people’s phones. They plan to use a special code on each phone called an IMEI number to track where all phones are. But even though it might help people find lost phones or stop phone crime, some people are worried this could also be misused. What’s an IMEI Number? Every phone has its own unique code, like a secret name tag, called an IMEI number (say it like “eye-mee”). This code helps identify each...

The Tor Project + Tails, A Game-Changing Merger...

In a significant development for digital privacy enthusiasts, the Tor Project and Tails have merged their operations, uniting two of the most trusted tools in the fight against online surveillance. This merger, announced this month, combines the power of Tor’s anonymity network with Tails' privacy-focused portable operating system. The goal? To offer a more robust, comprehensive solution for users seeking to protect their digital activities from prying eyes. Why This Merger Matters Tor and Tails have long been go-to tools for activists, journalists, and individuals under oppressive regimes, and privacy sensitive persons. Tor, best known for its anonymizing browser, routes users’ internet traffic through multiple servers to mask their...

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Latest hack to test Biden’s vow for consequences for Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said he would “deliver” a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the latest ransomware attacks targeting American...

Bootstrap, a UI framework used by 20% of internet sites, is...

A web framework used by a fifth of all internet websites plans to drop support for Internet Explorer 10 and 11. The move is scheduled for Bootstrap v5, set to be released later this year.

Another one-line npm package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem

An update to a tiny JavaScript library has thrown a large part of the JavaScript ecosystem into chaos on Saturday, with millions of projects believed to have been impacted...

Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B to $5B in 2021

Last year was record-breaking for African startups. But similarly to years past, the total amount raised by African startups varies among different reports. This year,...

Security and AI in 2022 and beyond

AI in 2021 In 2021, AI technologies that were only recently considered cutting edge (e.g., AI that generates realistic but totally fabricated images and text) became accessible to non-expert developers, poising them to enter the lexicon of adversary deception tactics....

How Kenyans (and the world) are falling for a Bitcoin Scam

Bitcoin scams seem to gain track in Kenya and globally overall. Here, Blancos explains how these scams operate, and how to really identify...

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Leave a minimal digital footprint

Your digital footprint paints a picture of who you are. Every day, whether we want to or not, most of us contribute to a growing...

How Kenyans (and the world) are falling for a Bitcoin Scam

Bitcoin scams seem to gain track in Kenya and globally overall. Here, Blancos explains how these scams operate, and how to really identify...

Ransomware: Now and The Future

Ransomware has staked its claim as a major element of the cybercriminal ecosystem. As one of the most potentially damaging and costly types of...

Attack Lifecycle story – part 1

I was recently explaining to a group of colleagues how a hacker gains access to a system. Then it hit me; most people are...

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This Week in Apps: Conservative apps surge, Instagram redesigned, TikTok gets ghosted

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through...

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Information Security in the Time of Covid-19 – Moving to the Cloud as a Cost-Cutting Measure Does Not Lessen Compliance Obligations

Recurringly, organizations fail to ask themselves the most rudimentary questions before moving to cloud platforms, and they suffer as a result...

Amazon took data from its own sellers to develop competing products

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.64% employees have used data about independent sellers on the company’s platform to develop competing products, a practice at odds with the company’s stated policies. The online retailing giant has long asserted, including to Congress, that when it makes and sells its own products, it doesn’t use information it collects from the [...]

Microsoft: Here’s how we’re trying to manage increased cloud demand

Microsoft prioritized the needs of first responders, healthcare workers, and others on the front line, as they've noted previously. And they've throttled some less-essential services to try to keep things humming. On April 23, officials...

Launching Oracle’s COVID-19 Therapeutic app: The back story

By Tony Baer (dbInsight) for Big on Data | April 10, 2020 -- 12:00 GMT (13:00 BST) | Topic: Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemic The input screen that patients see when using Oracle's COVID-19 therapeutic app   Source: Oracle Among the many mysteries of the coronavirus is finding out which medications and therapies [...]
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Leave a minimal digital footprint

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Court Explains About Claim To Let Government Listen To Citizens’ Phones

The Judiciary came out to disprove a news report by Standard carried on the daily's Sunday edition that claimed that in a ruling by the Court of Appeal, the government had been given the go-ahead to tap and listen to private calls

WhatsApp extends deadline for new privacy policy after people fled

WhatsApp on Friday announced that it will be extending the deadline of its confusing policy implementation by three months. The widely criticised policy required that its two billion users must either accept its updated terms and conditions by February...

A Rant: Stripping Privacy in This Era

The world has a privacy problem. Everything connected to the Internet (which is almost everything today), is for the taking. Looking around an average person's daily routine, it exposes the enlarging attack surface with each device we purchase, each...

How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers

The risk of infringing on privacy is growing by the day given the increased frequency and granularity of the data being collected, and advances in the technology for processing them. This has, inevitably, led to the need for laws to secure personal data privacy. Researchers and research data are not exempt: advances in big data [...]

What are the real intentions of tracking IMEI numbers?

Imagine if you had a magic map that could show you where all your favorite toys were at any time. Sounds pretty? Well, in Kenya, the government wants to do something similar, but with people’s phones. They plan to...

Australia: Unprecedented surveillance bill rushed through parliament in 24 hours.

Australian police can now hack your device, collect or delete your data, take over your social media accounts - all without a judge's warrant. The Australian government has been moving towards a surveillance state for some years already. Now they are putting the nail in the coffin with an unprecedented surveillance bill that allows the [...]

How to Effectively Detect and Respond to a Data Breach

Prevention is key, so be sure to take steps to prevent breaches from occurring in the first place by implementing strong security measures and regularly monitoring your systems for potential threats
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Amazon is finally getting serious about crypto and hopes to bring it to customers ‘as soon as possible,’ as it looks to hire a...

Amazon is finally getting serious about crypto technologies like bitcoin, a move that pushes the e-commerce giant into the burgeoning yet wildly volatile digital-currency space.

Cryptojackers and hackers

What qualifies as nightmare news for many cryptocurrency owners—prices of most major tokens taking another dive into the gutter—seems to not be that big a problem for cybercriminals who hijack hardware resources to mine it on someone else’s dime. The...