Stakeholders at the Information Security Society of Africa – Nigeria (ISSAN), have called for an urgent review of the Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act of 2015 to meet with the current landscape. At an event as part of the 2022 ISSAN Cybersecurity Conference in Lagos, a case was...
South Africa has been named as one of 135 countries the US claims have been targeted in a hacking campaign by Russian employees. The campaign is alleged to have targeted energy companies and critical infrastructure according to the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). They claimed the...
A huge fire has destroyed the central market in the capital of the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland. Fierce flames tore through the Waheen market in Hargeisa late on Friday 1st April. Store owners and traders are thought to be devastated as they have lost everything. The...
A new ‘Cyber Security Centre of Excellence for Africa’ is to be built in Marrakech to strengthen cyber security cooperation between the UK and Morocco. A delegation of British and Moroccan politicians, plus corporate and academic leaders met in Rabat to commemorate the launch. The delegation, which...
Jobs and hiring activity within the aerospace, defence and security industries in the Middle East and Africa has risen by 4.6% in February 2022. On the whole, this is a decrease of 0.04% compared with the previous month according to the latest data from GlobalData’s...
