A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran's time zone or have Farsi set as the default language.

By CIPESA Writer | Digital transformation is reshaping governance, service delivery, and civic life across Africa. At the centre of this transformation is the growing adoption of Digital Public Infrastructure … Continue reading CIPESA Public Dialogue Series: Interrogating Digital Public Infrastructure in East Africa The post CIPESA Public Dialogue Series:...

Recording sound by a video surveillance camera is prohibited by law. However, the installation of a sound capture device in a place placed under video protection may be legal, in very specific cases.

The Africa Just AI Research Fellowship was established to strengthen the intellectual and empirical foundations of our flagship Africa Just AI Project agenda. This fellowship supports emerging scholars in Southern […] The post RIA Announces 2026 Africa Just AI Conference Fellows appeared first on Research ICT Africa.

The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets -- named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and...

Arzu Geybulla, Access Now’s new Co-Executive Director, reflects on a life lived under repression and in exile, and how it has shaped her advocacy for human rights in the digital age. The post Fighting for fragile freedoms, online and off appeared first on Access Now.