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How to Make the Internet More Safer –...

If you a follower of this blog, you already know our obsession with #cybersecurity. We believe in a safe Internet for all. We also believe that there is enough room, resources, and will for all of us to co-exist coherently, together, safely and perform our duties to this great cause. This is my pitch on how I think we can make it even safer to use the ever growing Internet. Read my previous related posts on this topic here, here, here, here and here. Education is Still King Let's start with the basics. Educating ourselves and our kids about online safety will never grow old. We can never learn enough,...

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 application we install, each connection we add. Today, privacy is a quaint notion from a bygone era. Our lives have become intertwined with technology in ways we could never had imagined. And this, like illustrated in the paragraph above, comes with a constant erosion of our privacy. Each minute that the average Internet user spends online, they are exposed to a constant spy operation. Their personal information is...

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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 [...]

How To Install And Use TinyMCE – WYSIWYG HTML Editor In...

TinyMCE is also one of the popular WYSIWYG HTML editors like CKEditor. In this article, we study how to use TinyMCE in your Laravel application.

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[...]

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 [...]

The state of Cyber Security in Kenya

The regulatory authority responsible for ICT, and specifically CyberSec in Kenya is the Communication Authority (CA) of Kenya. It was founded in 1999. It's the body mandated with developing our cyber security management framework. Kenya's national point of contact on...

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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​How to build a data driven culture in your business

Making business decisions based on the best available data is fundamental, but not always easy. Technology, processes, and company culture can all have an impact on how data is used within an organisation. Digital leaders suggest organisations must focus on three key areas: strategy, culture, and agility, which was discussed at a recent event held [...]

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...

My first Linux experience, and more

Back in 2014, I was in my first yeat at University. My course, as most of the readers here already know, was Computer Security...

How To Install And Use TinyMCE – WYSIWYG HTML Editor In Laravel

TinyMCE is also one of the popular WYSIWYG HTML editors like CKEditor. In this article, we study how to use TinyMCE in your Laravel application.

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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 [...]

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...

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 [...]
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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 [...]

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

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...

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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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...