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Participants were senior police, military and Civil Service officials employing Information and Communication Technologies.
Growing cyber criminality across the world has bled economies, stirred terrorism and leaked State sensitive information. The situation necessitates that experts must swim against the wave of cyber attacks that cost Cameroon 3 Billion FCFA last year. Cameroon has taken up various arms against cyber crime, including the creation by a presidential decree in 2010 of the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC).
The agency seeks to check the escalation of the hydra-headed phenomenon. This and other security techniques against cyber crime have earned Cameroon the 15th position in the world and the fifth in Africa. This ranking is contained in the 2015 report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). ANTIC Director General, Dr. Ebot Ebot Enaw, who made the disclosure, was addressing participants at one-week workshop in Buea from September 19-24, 2016.
Dr. Ebot Ebot Enaw explained that the workshop was intended to enable security officers carry out conclusive forensic research against cyber crime as well as improve the skills of civil servants with latest techniques in managing and securing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. The human element was identified as the weakest link in the cyber security chain. The cyber training modules included extracting and analyzing digital evidence on media like hard drives, tablets and smart phones.
The 100 participants from State institutions, including the military, security services and Civil Service, equally built skills in detecting intrusions, monitoring social media, protecting computers and mobile phones and elaborating deep web.
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Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) said on Thursday information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network in 2014 by what it believed was a "state-sponsored actor."
The data stolen may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and hashed passwords but may not have included unprotected passwords, payment card data or bank account information, the company said.
"The investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo's network," the company said.
Yahoo said it was working with law enforcement on the matter.
It was not clear how this disclosure might affect Yahoo's plan to sell its email service and other core internet properties to Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N).
Verizon said in July it would buy Yahoo's core internet properties for $4.83 billion.
Verizon said on Thursday it was notified of the breach in the last two days.
"We will evaluate as the investigation continues through the lens of overall Verizon interests ... Until then, we are not in position to further comment," the company said.
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Giving a keynote address at a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the National Security Division at the US Department of Justice, Comey sat down with Assistant Attorney General John Carlin and discussed things such as webcam security and Twitter. The event was hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, DC think tank.
“Do you still have a piece of tape over your cameras at home?” Carlin asked.
“Heck yeah, oh, heck yeah,” Comey replied.
“It's not crazy that the FBI director cares about personal security as well, and so I think people ought to take responsibility for their own safety and security,” Comey continued. “There are some sensible things you ought to be doing, and that’s one of them.”
The practice is apparently widespread at US government offices, according to the FBI chief.
“You go into any government office and we all have the little camera things that sit on top of the screen. They all have a little lid that closes down on them. You do that so that people who don’t have authority don’t look at you. I think that’s a good thing,” Comey explained.
While the FBI director admitted he was “mocked” after bringing up the tape trick in April this year – in part because he was involved in a heated dispute with Apple over access to the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone at the time – it appears many have taken his advice to heart. A photo of Facebook tycoon Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year showed his office laptop with a piece of tape covering the webcam.
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Is it already that time of year again? You better believe it, as Apple's iPhone launch event is upon us once more as we prepare ourselves for an onslaught of new devices from the Cupertino firm.
Apple CEO Tim Cook tips on his highly anticipated keynote the secrets of the new Apple products. The focus is likely to be mainly a device: the new iPhone 7. Stay tuned.
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Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is recalling its new flagship Galaxy Note 7 devices amid reports that some of the premium phones are catching fire due to battery problems, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The person did not comment on the schedule or scope of a recall but South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, citing an unnamed Samsung source, said the company would announce a "global" recall during a press briefing at 5 p.m. (0400 ET).
Samsung declined to comment on any recall plan for the high-end gadget, which has been the subject of online complaints from users claiming their phones had caught fire while charging.
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From telephone and television parts, a Namibian high school student, Simon Petrus has invented a mobile phone that has an in-built television set, a radio, a light bulb, a fan, including sockets to charge other devices.
It also makes uninterrupted calls where there are radio frequencies without the use of sim cards or airtime, and it is charged using an in-built radiator.
This invention was discovered in July at a regional school technology competition where he won for his rural school, Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School, in the Ohangwena Region in Namibia.
The Grade 12 student told a local media, newera.com.na that his unemployed parents sourced funds to make his two-year old project, which costs about USD 147, a success.
Simon Petrus has qualified for the national finals of the competition where he is the reigning champion for his two-in-one machine that dries and cools seeds.
“When he won last year some judges were of the opinion that there was an engineer at home who was helping him. But the only help he has is from us the teachers here at school. He came up with his own project,” his science teacher, Taimi Vatileni, told the website.
Petrus is an average learner and aspires to become an electronics engineer after he completes Grade 12, his teacher added.
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