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U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority Admits to Accidental Data Breach
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) apologized after it accidentally exposed the confidential details of around 1,600 consumers who complained against it, in response...
U.S. CISA, DHS, and FBI Discover North Korean Malware
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the FBI recently exposed a new hacking activity that...
Google Announced US$1 Million for its “Be Internet Awesome” Initiative
Google recently announced that it’s going to spend US$1 million to bring awareness on data privacy and internet security across the sub-Saharan Africa region....
New Rogue Cryptomining Techniques and Cases
It’s common knowledge that new cryptocurrency units come into existence through mining, a process of complex computation relying on CPU or GPU power. Unfortunately,...
Why CISOs Should Worry About Sodinokibi Ransomware
In late April 2019, researchers from Cisco Talos came across a strain of ransomware that raided a web server. The entry point was a...
Lack of Quality Cybersecurity Workforce Hurting West African Banks
Dataprotect, a Morocco-based information security company, examined the cybersecurity stance of 148 banks against various cyberattacks from the eight UEMOA (Translated: West African Economic...