Your guide up a mountain of information! - Tue, Apr 23 2019

Attackers are changing both their tactics and targets in an attempt to remain criminally successful, Proofpoint's study found. A low-level, non-executive title is no defense against spear-phishing campaigns, a new report has found. Attackers are…

htxt.africa – Nokulunga Xala – Apr 23, 8:45 AM

Ahead of the 2019 South African national elections happening on 8th May, Facebook has highlighted programmes and products in an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation and to support civic engagement on its platform. “We have listened…

Speaking at the recently held Mo Ibrahim Governance Week, Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, highlighted the importance of coding education for Africa. Adesina further emphasized the need for Africans to embrace…

Easily guessed passwords being used across multiple accounts have been highlighted as a major gap in the online security practices of UK internet users. A survey by the National Cyber Security (NCSC) found that many British internet users did not…

Public libraries in Ghana are set to get Wi-Fi. This is after an agreement between Surfline Communications Limited, a telecommunications company in Ghana, and the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) was reached. Library visitors in the Greater Accra…

MTN Business Kenya has launched MTN Managed Security as a service, a product that aims to supplement XaaS offerings by bringing peace of mind to enterprise customers. The announcement is preceded by increased cases of cyber threats, which have…

International law enforcement is investigating an elaborate scheme of cryptojacking, which includes South African IP addresses which may have been part of the scheme. Cryptojacking is the unauthorised use of someone's computer to mine…

Microsoft has released its 2018 Security Intelligence Report (SIR), the 24th in its volume. Analysis of over 6.5 trillion daily threat signals highlight a 73 percent global decline in malware encounters. It however noticed a rise in crypto mining…