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Safaricom’s Nairobi based Alpha innovation incubator may have an uncertain future, according to sources. With two high-level departures, and the passing of Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore, there are questions on how or if Alpha will continue to operate. The space was established in 2017 to spur new product development for Safaricom, which is Kenya’s largest […] …
After enabling ‘Site Isolation’ security feature in Chrome for desktops last year, Google has now finally introduced ‘the extra line of defence’ for Android smartphone users surfing the Internet over the Chrome web browser. In brief, Site Isolation is a security feature that adds an additional boundary between websites by ensuring that pages from different sites end up in different sandboxed…
Startups snagged SG$13.4 billion in funds between January and September this year, with early-stage funds almost doubling to SG$886.1 million and deep-tech firms in three sectors accounting for under 4% of total capital.
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The vulnerability in first-generation Echoes and eight-generation Kindles lets an attacker wage man-in-the-middle attacks. …
With malvertising on the rise, how can users and organizations tell the difference between safe advertisements and malicious ones that threaten personal or company data?
The post How to Tell Safe Advertisements From Dangerous Malvertising appeared first on Security Intelligence. …
These fun Halloween options will take your house from an everyday fright to ghoulishly spook-tacular….
The Windows Developer Team detailed in a blog post published today the new additions developers should be aware of with the imminent release of Windows 10, version 1909 (19H2), now known as November 2019 Update. […] …
People who mistype the URL for their political candidate or party’s website could end up on an opposing party or candidate’s website, Digital Shadow’s research shows. …
Digital identify, technological innovation, authentication and data privacy issues are not aligned. This impacts how we handle relationships and business. Policy issues must be resolved.
The post Will the Future of Authentication Run Into a Privacy Wall? appeared first on Security Intelligence. …
The Swedish automaker introduced the XC40 Recharge, which can go from 0 to 60 mph in 4.9 seconds, and reach about 200 miles on a charge….
When chasing planets, you should go chasing waterfalls….
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people. Extortion by email is growing significantly, with a large number of users recently complaining about receiving sextortion emails that…
Germany released draft security guidelines on Tuesday for next generation wireless networks that stopped short of banning Huawei, as the U.S. warned again it would reconsider intelligence sharing with allies that use the Chinese company’s equipment.
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Nigeria’s #StopRobbingUs campaign to curb police harassment of techies could grow into a formal lobbying group for the country’s tech sector, according to founders Bosun Tijani and Jason Njoku. Tijani, the CEO of Lagos based innovation center CcHub and now Kenya’s iHub, helped spearhead the movement last month in response to detainment and extortion of […] …
How the Yurok nation and other indigenous communities use low-intensity burns to shape the landscape and the species that live there….
