Your guide up a mountain of information! - Sun, Nov 17 2019

With the support of the World Bank, Israel is deploying its internet security arsenal in Kampala. [...] The world's most secretive country is currently beefing up its support for President Yoweri Museveni who has been in the West's crosshairs since…

libyaherald.com – Nov 16

Libya's Trans Sahara IT and Communications announced last week that it has signed a strategic partnership with Morocco's Data Protect to set up the first Security Operation Centre in Libya. Speaking on the agreement, Zakaria Farhat, Trans Sahara's…

KAMPALA – The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) will host the International Telecommunications Union Cyber drill for the African Region at Kabira Country Club in Kampala. The Cyber drill, which Uganda is hosting from 18th – 21st…

IOL – Nov 14, 6:32 AM

Cape Town - Cybersecurity remains one of the greatest challenges facing Africa today, and with technology adoption continuing to rise in Africa and mobile smart device ownership growing exponentially alongside the increase in social media use…

A British cybersecurity expert helped crack a kidnapping case involving two Canadian women -- one of them from Amherst -- armed with little more than three mobile phone numbers. Gordon McKay, who has worked on several high-profile cases, was able…

Ahead of the technology conference AfricaCom in Cape Town, starting today (12 November 2019), Janet MacKenzie, Partner and head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Practice at Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg has lauded the recent…

Governments and companies around the world are investing heavily in emerging technologies to boost growth. The Middle East and North Africa region could see approximately $400 billion added to its economies over the next 15 years if artificial…

Uganda has hosted the Annual and Regional Cyber Defence East Africa 2019 Conference with focus on the Finance Sector. The two-day conference that ended on Wednesday evening at Royal Suites Hotel Bugolobi attracted more than 100 cyber security…

 Tuesday, 12 November 2019 10:48 (Ecofin Agency) - American e-commerce company Amazon announced it is establishing a unit of its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, in Kenya next year. The company said it is seeking to offer…

On Monday, 11 November 2019, Kaspersky released statistics drawn from its Advanced Persistent Threat reporting service. Since the start of 2018, the global cybersecurity company has kept a close eye on the META region for APT attacks, working on 29…