Middle East, North Africa Cybercrime Ups Its Game
Ransomware infections increased by 233% this past year in the Middle East and North Africa as part of a shift toward more savvy and …
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Five years and one pivot later, Trueface emerges with a promise for better facial recognition tech
Shaun Moore and Nezare Chafni didn’t initially intend to develop a new standalone facial recognition technology, when they first got …
Facebook is hiring a director of human rights policy to work on “conflict prevention” and “peace-building”
Facebook is advertising for a human rights policy director to join its business, located either at its Menlo Park HQ or in Washington DC …
Database leak exposes personal records of nearly 1 million South Africans
Barely a year after South Africa’s largest data leak was revealed in 2017, the country has suffered yet another data leak as 934,000 …
Sierra Leone didn’t really use blockchain in their election
Following the presidential elections conducted in Sierra Leone on March 7, it was widely reported in the media that Sierra Leone had become …
Kaspersky uncovers sophisticated cyber-espionage operation across Africa and Middle East
Researchers have uncovered new malware that has apparently been used to spy on victims in the Middle East and Africa for six years …
‘China’s gift to Africa’: How China spied on the African Union via donated computers
For a period of 5 years, China continued to spy on all electronic communications at the African Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, …