A bug in Microsoft Word was exploited by hackers for months before it was eventually fixed, according to security researchers. The flaw allowed attackers to take control of a computer via malicious...
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 Akufo-Addo-led government has started on the right footing with regards to governance in its first 100 days, Kofi Bentil, Vice President of IMANI Ghana, has said. According to him, although there...
Microsoft says it had already fixed software flaws linked to an alleged breach of the global banking system before they were exposed last week. On Friday, a group called the Shadow Brokers published...
On Friday, the Shadow Brokers hacking group published a cache of documents revealing Windows hacking tools allegedly belonging to the NSA. But Microsoft said it has already patched the flaws....
A huge range of security weaknesses, said to be worth over $2m if sold on the black market, have been leaked online. The tools are said to have been created by the US National Security Agency (NSA),...
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...
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:...
People in the Chinese megacity Chongqing could be fined for using VPNs to jump over the country's "Great Firewall" that blocks access to forbidden websites from Google to Facebook. The punishment...
