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19.05.2023 NEWS: Inactive Google accounts will be deleted A week after Twitter announced it will be removing idle accounts after 30 days of inaction, Google has updated its account inactivity policy. Google says that the updated policy is effective immediately, but that it will start deleting accounts that haven’t been active for at least 2 … Read more
From the onset of our project, we have emphasised and encouraged the importance of regional co-operation to support cyber resilience. This week has shown a perfect example of this, as our experts Nick Small and Klaid Mägi participated in a Regional CSIRT Essentials workshop hosted in Cambodia and shared with a delegation from the Lao … Read more
Back in April, our RIA Partner lead Merili Soosalu was very pleased to be able to participate in Costa Rica Cyber Awareness Week, alongside our regional colleague Lorenzo Martinez Lebrón. Costa Rica continues to make great strides in its Cyber resilience journey and after a long time since our last visit, it was great to … Read more
NEWS: Cybersecurity in the Cloud: The Challenging Hurdles It Has To Overcome Cloud Security Challenges. Organizations embracing cloud environments must understand that cloud applications and services have become popular targets for cybercriminals. A few notable and inherent risks with cloud deployments include: API Vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, API exploits are on the rise, costing organizations dearly. Whether … Read more
NEWS: EU lawmakers call for a new set of rules for A.I. tools such as ChatGPT A group of European Union lawmakers called for new rules to regulate a larger swath of artificial intelligence tools, beyond those identified as explicitly high risk under the region’s proposed AI Act. The letter comes after a group of … Read more
14.04.23 NEWS: Russian hackers linked to widespread attacks targeting NATO and EU Poland’s Military Counterintelligence Service and its Computer Emergency Response Team have linked APT29 state-sponsored hackers, part of the Russian government’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), to widespread attacks targeting NATO and European Union countries. As part of this campaign, the cyberespionage group (also tracked as … Read more
Back in March, our partners in Ecuador completed their first national Tabletop cyber crisis exercise with the help of Cyber4Dev. Led by the Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones, a critical scenario was explored and the National Cybersecurity Committee worked through a series of potential cyber incidents, with the aim of testing out Ecuador’s response and ability to … Read more
This week we have participated in the ‘Third International Workshop on Combating Transnational Crime in Africa’. This conference which was hosted by Stellenbosch University, and led by noelle van der waag-cowling, focussed upon the theme of ‘The African Cyber Security Landscape: Countering Cyber Threat Proliferation’. Our Project leader Enrico Calandro was part of a high level panel on the … Read more
Developing cohesive networks of co-operation is one of the three key pillars of our work. It’s with this sentiment in mind that we are so pleased to have been able co-ordinate a regional workshop bringing together representatives from LaoCERT (Lao PDR) and CamCERT (Cambodia) on the theme of Regional and International Cooperation Review and Planning, … Read more
We’re once again delighted to be in Mauritius this week to deliver training on Understanding and Building Resilience against Disinformation in a Democratic Society, led by European External Action Service East Stratcom taskforce expert Siim Kumpas. The event was opened by Hon Deepak Balgobin Minister of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation. In his opening remarks, he commented that “Information manipulation … Read more
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