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How GDPR Affects Your Organization and What to Do About It

The article explains that organizations that process personal data of EU citizens, regardless of where the organization is located, must comply with the GDPR and must obtain explicit consent, inform individuals of their rights
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Will you move here? Ireland’s top towns for tech lovers revealed

Ireland’s top towns for tech lovers have been revealed and the selections are based on important factors such as availability of jobs. If you’re working in the tech industry in some way, shape or form and are seeking a move this news will be right up your street.     New data has revealed where [...]
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Developer

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.
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Programming languages: Python developers reveal what they use it for and...

Data science is often cited as one of the main reasons for Python's growing popularity. But while people are definitely using Python...
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Africa

Building Secure Futures Through African Entrepreneurship

Botswana's partnership with MIT Kuo Center shows how embedding security in entrepreneurship programs creates resilient tech ecosystems through local context and proactive design.
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Africa

Botswana Partnership Shows New Path for African Tech Growth

The MIT and Kuo Center collaboration with Botswana's government offers a blueprint for building cybersecurity capacity through local entrepreneurship.
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Cyber Security

Why Cybersecurity Matters: The Risks of Neglecting Online Protection

Discover the potential consequences of ignoring cybersecurity, including identity theft, financial loss, damage to reputation, data breaches, and disruption to business operations. Learn how to protect yourself, your organization, and society by prioritizing online protection and staying informed about cybersecurity threats.
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Cyber Security

Lazarus attackers mimic job recruiters

Cyberattackers are impersonating a type of person who’s difficult to ignore: a recruiter saying that you’re just the right person for a new, impressive job. At this year’s virtual ESET World conference, Jean-Ian Boutin, director of threat research at the...
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BlanCorp

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 engrained with the hacking scenes in movies and they honestly think that is what happens...
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Cyber Security

Why Cybersecurity Awareness in Corporate Spaces Matters and How to Achieve...

In today's digital age, the importance of cybersecurity can hardly be overstated. With the increasing reliance on technology and the internet, companies are more vulnerable to cyber attacks than ever before. A single security breach can result in the...
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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...
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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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Cyber Security

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...
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How Godfather Android Malware Builds Hidden Workspaces on Your Phone

The Godfather Android trojan creates hidden sandbox environments to bypass security measures, targeting global banking app users with actionable protection strategies.
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WhatsApp Woes on Oppo Phones What It Reveals About Mobile Security

When WhatsApp stops working on Oppo phones, it reveals deeper mobile security challenges and practical solutions for users facing app compatibility issues.
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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 [...]
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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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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...
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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...
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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 portrait of who we are online; a portrait that is probably more public than we...
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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...
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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.
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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...
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