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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...

Concerns about the ICT Bill 2024 in Kenya

Kenya's tech industry has been a beacon of innovation and growth, thanks in part to a regulatory environment that has allowed startups and innovators to thrive. However, the proposed ICT Bill 2024 raises concerns about the future of this sector. The current regulatory framework, while not perfect, has enabled significant job creation and economic development. It has encouraged a innovative culture of entrepreneurship where new ideas can flourish without unnecessary barriers, in an economy that is growing and adapting quickly. Remember Kenya is a third world country. The ICT Bill 2024, if passed in its current form, introduces stricter regulations that could completely kill innovation. For example, the...

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John McAfee ‘Q’ Instagram Post Sparks Dead Man’s Switch Conspiracy

A cryptic image posted on John McAfee's Instagram moments after he was reported dead sparked speculation from QAnon conspiracy theorists that the antivirus software entrepreneur had activated a so-called "dead man's switch" to expose the government. John McAfee, 75, was found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite [...]

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...

5 Code Commenting Don’ts

Comments in code are like traffic signs. If they're not there at all, chaos ensues because no one knows how anything is supposed to work. At the same time, having too many of them--or having ones that are too complicated to read quickly--also leads to chaos, because no one can digest the information they are intended to convey. That's a long way of saying that[...]

Which African country is the cheapest for starting a business?

The Doing Business 2020 study published by the World Bank showed that developing economies are catching up with developed economies in the ease of...

The Role of Employee Training in Cybersecurity Risk Management

As #cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, employee awareness and training have become critical components of any organization's cybersecurity risk management strategy. In most cases, employees are the weakest link in an organization's cybersecurity defenses, often unwittingly exposing the organization to cyber threats...

The Cybersecurity Culture

There's an ever present theme in my discussion about cybersecurity; Cybersecurity should be a culture. You see, when most people talk or hear about Cybersecurity, they immediately almost associate it to the opposite of hacking. Inasmuch as that has some...

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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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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 [...]

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...

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...

On-Premises vs. Cloud Security

As usual, we begin by championing cybersecurity. It stands as the foremost concern for organizations striving to safeguard their sensitive data and digital assets. Among the many strategies available, two dominant paradigms have emerged: on-premises security and cloud security....
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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

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 [...]

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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 portrait of who we are online; a portrait that is probably more public than we...

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...

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

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 [...]

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...
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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...

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.