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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...

AI Overlords are no longer an Internet meme

The AI boom might be slowing down finally, and a few companies have cemented themselves as the go-to defacto owners of the space. OpenAI is leading the race, backed my #Microsoft and Google follows closely behind. Nvidia is the shovel-seller in the proverbial "if everyone is digging for gold, sell shovels". But when it comes to me, I am an overthinker. I scratch a bit deeper than most. I'm more interested in the details, in the cog and the results of it's grinding. I set up miniature models on my lad and test them. I try and train them. And then sit back and contemplate: technology always...

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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...

Continued Use of Python 2 Will Heighten Security Risks

Nearly five months after the Python Software Foundation finally ended support for the Python 2 programming language, many developers are continuing to use it, heightening security risks for their organizations in the process. Support for Python 2 ended Jan. 1,...

Who’s an UX developer really?

What does a UX designer actually do? It’s a question that is frequently asked nowadays. Surprisingly, the question comes not only from friends, and family, but from employers and people who work in IT! Origins…. UX is not new; in fact the term has been around since the early nineties. The term has been credited [...]

Nigerian government moves to Indian app, Koo, after Twitter ban

Almost a week after the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations announced by the Nigerian government took effect on June 4, accounts for the “Government of Nigeria” and other government officials were created on Indian microblogging platform, Koo. All the accounts created were afterwards verified with a yellow badge and have started putting out regular official [...]

VPN limitations leave opening for ‘zero-trust’ tech

Virtual private network (VPN) usage soared in March 2020 as employers sought to connect a growing number of homebound employees to company resources. But limitations of VPNs—namely, drawbacks in security and scalability—have left an opening for a technology area known...

Patch Notes: Why Cybersecurity Will Eventually Win

Recently, if you stroll the spaces that talk about cybersecurity, you might have notes a theme that said that there is a Cybersecurity gap in the staffing world. That meant that there is a deficiency of cybersecurity experts in...

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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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Newly Revealed Security Flaw Means Malware Could Steal Data From Android Devices

A newly revealed flaw in the Android operating system could allow wrongdoers to steal private information from your device. Both the malware and the...

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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 [...]

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...

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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...

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...
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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.