Last week, our colleague Don Stikvoort gave a presentation to the Internet Governance Forum on the subject of The Co-operation and Trust Model of the Internet: a work in progress Don explained how in his years of experience, knowledge and observation, that progress on the model has been steady, but that there is much more work to … Read more
What is disinformation? What is information manipulation? How do you build resilience in society against information manipulation? Answers to such questions were given and discussed by the Cyber4Dev team in Seychelles recently in our training on “Understanding and Building Resilience against Disinformation in a Democratic Society”. This training was carried out by two of our experts, Mr Hannes … Read more
Back in October, we were pleased to have delivered Secure Data Exchange in Dominican Republic, in relation with OGTIC. In addition to our team expert, Martin Indrek Miller, we were privileged to have Riho Kerge and Taavi Meinberg join us on the journey. Recently we spoke to Taavi about his experience in deploying the innovative … Read more
NEWS: Face search engine PimEyes accused of “surveillance and stalking on a scale previously unimaginable” Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch has filed a complaint with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which claims that face recognition search engine PimEyes facilitates stalking. PimEyes is an online face search engine that searches the internet to find … Read more
NEWS: Is there a problem with stress and burnout in cybersecurity? Stress, wellbeing and mental health has become an area of discussion in many industries, particularly on how best to address its impact on the workforce. There used to be a stigma attached to those with mental health problems, often leading to them being discriminated … Read more
NEWS: Cyberattackers Target Instagram Users With Threats of Copyright Infringement Threat actors are targeting Instagram users in a new phishing campaign that uses URL redirection to take over accounts, or steal sensitive information that can be used in future attacks or be sold on the Dark Web. As a lure, the campaign uses a suggestion … Read more
On Thursday 27th October we were pleased to be in The Republic of Seychelles. Here, our country co-ordinator Hannes Krause, accompanied by project leader Enrico Calandro had the honour of meeting the Vice President of Seychelles, Mr Ahmed Afif. The meeting was dedicated to the start of our work in Seychelles and we had a very substantial discussion with Vice … Read more
🌐 The Cyber4Dev team is in Mauritius and today we held a session together with the Mauritius National Cybersecurity Committee, providing advice on the measuring and evaluation of the Mauritius National Cybersecurity Strategy 2022-2024. Hannes Krause, our country coordinator for Mauritius explained that the country was the first priority country for the project in Africa that which became … Read more
It was our pleasure to work with alongside colleagues at Instituto Nacional de Tecnologias de Informacao #INTIC this week. It was great to have the opportunity to address stakeholders from across civic societies on the core topics and challenges of Cyber Security yesterday.
Building on our work with ITESA educators over summer, this week our team are back in The Dominican Republic to train and observe as our cohort of trainers convey their learnings to students. Day One of our bootcamp has already concluded… more to come later this week.
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