The two tech giants succumbed to a well known type of scam, in which an attacker tricks the victim Google and Facebook have confirmed that they fell victim to an alleged $100m (£77m) scam. In March,...
Ransomware attacks on businesses around the world rose 50% last year, research into successful cyber-breaches shows. Its popularity means malware is now responsible for 51% of all the incidents...
Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that they had detected planned cyber attacks against 120 public and private targets in the Jewish state but did not specify the intended victims. A statement...
Russian hackers are targeting the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, say security experts. Phishing emails, malware and fake net domains were all being used as attack...
The US government has announced measures to partner Ghana intensify fight against cybercrime in the country. Cybercrime is a major problem confronting financial institutions in the country. Speaking...
A federal judge has handed down the longest sentence ever imposed in the US for a cybercrime case to the son of a member of the Russian Parliament convicted of hacking into more than 500 US...
A Russian under arrest in Spain has been slapped with an indictment in the United States, accused of controlling one of the world's top generators of spam and online exortion, officials said Friday....
You do not need a security expert to tell you that our security establishment is broken and archaic. For many years we have undermined the power and authority of all security agencies except the...
You do not need a security expert to tell you that our security establishment is broken and archaic. For many years we have undermined the power and authority of all security agencies except the...
KOFI Annan International Peacekeeping Centre (KAIPTC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with e-Crime Bureau, a leading cyber security agency based in Ghana. The collaboration seeks to...
The Ministers for Communication and the National Security, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and Albert Kan-Dapaah, have pledged government’s support in the fight against cybercrime at an opening session of a...
The Ministers for Communications and the National Security, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and Mr. Albert Kan-Dapaah respectively, have pledged and reiterated government’s support in the fight against...
The National Security minister, Kan Dapaah says Cybercrime is among the top three security threats the country is grappling with. He said the increasing development trends in Information and...
The National Security minister Ken Dapaah says Cybercrime is among the top three security threats the country is grappling with. He said the increasing development trends in Information and...
As at the end of January this year, the total subscriptions of mobile data in Ghana stand at more than 20 million with a penetration rate of 70.90 per cent, Mr Joe Anokye, the Director-General of the...
The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre (KAIPTC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading cyber security agency, e-Crime Bureau to develop capacity in the area of cyber...
Ghana is to establish a national cyber security council to tackle the increasing rate of cyber-crime in the country. The initiative is part of the government’s effort to build a comprehensive cyber...
The Ghana National Coordinator of the Global Action on Cybercrime extended (GLACY+) programme has advocated for a shared Reporting System to combat the menace of cybercrime in the country. The...
Apple has issued an iPhone software update after reports of fake ransomware attacks where money was demanded in order to unlock the handset’s browser. A pop-up screen accused the phone owner of...
A report by Kenyan-based IT firm, Serianu Limited, has revealed that the economy lost a total of US$50 million to cybercrime in 2016. The report dubbed ‘Achieving Cyber Security Resilience:...
