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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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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 [...]
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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,...
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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...
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Africa

KPMG Private Enterprise crowns Khula! as Africa’s top tech innovator

KPMG South Africa has announced the winners of its four-month-long KPMG Private Enterprise Tech Innovator in Africa competition, which sought to recognise Africa’s most successful technology innovators across the continent, with Khula! coming out as the leading tech innovator. This global competition, which was created to include 16 countries across most major regions of the [...]
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Regulation Insights from Starlink’s in Zimbabwe

In recent times, the journey of Starlink, Elon Musk's ambitious satellite internet venture under SpaceX, has been marked by regulatory challenges, particularly in Zimbabwe....
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Cyber Security

A Comprehensive Guide to Securing Your Website

Learn how you can help to protect your website and the sensitive information of your customers. By following these steps and tips, you can help to protect your website and the sensitive information of your customers. Remember to stay vigilant and always be on the lookout for new threats and vulnerabilities.
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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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Cyber Security

Protecting Your Business from Cyber Attacks: A Look at the Most...

https://youtu.be/vvZpx4wONhk Cyber attacks have become a major concern for businesses and organizations of all sizes. With the increasing reliance on technology and the internet, the potential for cyber attacks has risen significantly. In this blog post, we will provide a...
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Cloud

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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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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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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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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Unveiled: How xHelper Android Malware Re-Installs Even After Factory Reset

xHelper- A mysterious piece of Android malware that re-installs itself on infected devices even after users delete it or factory reset their devices—making it nearly impossible to remove. xHelper reportedly infected over 45,000 devices last year, and since then, cybersecurity researchers have been trying to unfold how the malware survives factory reset [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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